§ Mr. Dugdaleasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give statistics regarding alienated land in the Kenya White Highlands showing the respective acreages of land under crops, including grass leys, of land classified as grazing, excluding leys, with separate figures for that fenced and with water, and other grazing land, of forest, including planted trees, of undeveloped and unused land, of abandoned or unoccupied holdings, and of other types of land; and if he will give the number of farms, under 200 acres, between 200 and 499 acres, 500 and 1,999 acres, 2,000 and 4,999 acres, and of 5,000 acres and over, respectively.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodIn August, 1958, the area of land under crops (including grass leys) in the Highlands was 1,173,300 acres, and the area of natural grazing, 5,258,900 acres. Of the natural grazing area, 2,040,500 acres were paddocked.
The total area under forest (excluding Crown forests) was 288,300 acres. The remaining area consisted of 109,800 acres fallow, 53,200 under farm labour cultivation, 287,800 unusable and 127,900 acres of other land, including that used for roads, building, etc.
60WThe numbers of holdings of different sites were:
Under 200 acres … 601 200 to 499 acres … 503 500 to 1,999 acres … 1,628 2,000 to 4,999 acres … 498 5,000 acres and over … 267 Total … 3,497 The above figures exclude holdings of less than 20 acres.