[citation needed] The farm sizes range from small plots of average 0.8 hectares owned by the majority of small scale farmers to large scale farms owned by people who are or were influential in the past governments.
The small scale farmers grow potatoes, maize, garden peas, kales, pyrethrum (diminishing production) and keep animals.
Most of the feeder roads are impassable during these seasons and a lot of crops go to waste.
Incidents of resource conflicts have been experienced recurrently since 1992 with the climax in 2007-8, [Post election violence.]
Conservation efforts in the Mau forest complex have also resulted in more IDP camps after the small illegal encroachers were flushed out.