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National Irrigation Schemes by Scheme and Measure.

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What Kenya's national irrigation schemes cropped, yielded, earned and paid out, for the nine fiscal years to 2023/24. 270 observations: five measures for each of four named schemes, a residual covering the rest, and the printed total for all schemes.

Irrigated paddy production nearly tripled over the nine years, from 101,510 tonnes to 293,627, on an area that grew faster still, from 14,586 hectares to 44,805. Mwea grew with it, from 78,760 tonnes to 155,680, and still lost most of its dominance: it was 77.6 per cent of all irrigated paddy in 2015/16 and 53.0 per cent in 2023/24.

What grew instead was everything outside the four named schemes. The residual, which the source lists as North Kano, South West Kano, Bura, Tana, Lower Kuja, Taveta, Anyiko, Kimira, Oluch and Nanundu Manya, went from 7,100 tonnes to 77,754, eleven times over, and passed every named scheme except Mwea.

The plot-owners' share of what the schemes earn has been between 49.4 and 63.1 per cent in eight of the nine years, and 80.9 per cent in the first. That first year sits far outside the range of the other eight and the source offers no note explaining it, so it is published as printed rather than adjusted.

Two footnotes on this table matter for reading it. Ahero's hectares from 2019/20 and its paddy from 2020/21 were revised to include the Ahero expansion, so growth in that scheme across those boundaries is partly a change in what is being counted. And the revised marker on four of the nine year columns means revised excluding Mwea, which is unusual enough that the source spells it out.

The five named schemes sum to the printed All Schemes total in every measure and every year, to within 2.0 in the measure's own unit, which is the source's own rounding. The previous edition of this table does not: its 2021/22 column misses by 26,082 tonnes of paddy, 12.6 per cent of that year's total, and by smaller amounts in three other measures. This edition's figures are the ones that reconcile.

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Kenya's irrigated paddy nearly tripled in nine years, and Mwea's share of it fell from more than three quarters to about half.

Paddy production by irrigation scheme · tonnes · FY 2015/16 to 2023/24

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · National Irrigation Schemes by Scheme and Measure (annual) · Updated 2026-08-23

#	fiscal_year	period_start	scheme	metric	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
fiscal_year	string	Kenyan fiscal year, July to June, as the source writes it	-
period_start	date	1 July of the year the fiscal year opens in	-
scheme	string	Mwea, Ahero, Bunyala, West Kano, Others, or All Schemes. Others is the residual the source footnotes as ten named smaller schemes.	-
metric	string	Hectares cropped, Number of plot-owners, Paddy yields, Gross value of output, or Payments to plot-owners. Each scheme prints all five.	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional. The source's revised marker on this table means revised excluding Mwea Irrigation Scheme.	-
value	float64	The measure's value, in the unit its own column names	-
unit	string	hectares, plot_owners, tonnes or ksh_million, by metric	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). National Irrigation Schemes by Scheme and Measure [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-23. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.irrigation-schemes.annual