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Irrigation activities and institutions in Kenya's Lake Victoria Basin
Author(s) -
Okidi C. O.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1990.tb00376.x
Subject(s) - irrigation , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , business , agricultural economics , scale (ratio) , water resource management , geography , economics , environmental science , engineering , ecology , cartography , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , biology
Irrigation activities in Kenya range from large‐scale government‐owned schemes involving thousands of acres on which farmers work for wages to small individually owned and irrigated plots of three or four acres. This paper examines the institutions and operational workings of the government schemes as well as the privately owned plots. In general the most successful irrigation schemes are those which are organized and run by individuals or by private groups with government agencies and NGOs providing technical support.