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There are five irrigation schemes in the County with a capacity to irrigate 1,120 hectares. However, only two are operational currently irrigating about 680 hectares. Other irrigation development initiatives include farmer and community-based irrigation systems. These are mainly traditional furrows which irrigate about 3,000 hectares in the valley and 1,200 hectares in the escarpment and highland zones. Most of the irrigation projects are gravity-fed except for a few group/individual based projects that use portable pumping systems.