Kenya · Infrastructure
Where Kenya’s leased grain storage capacity expanded
Kenya’s National Cereals and Produce Board reported leased grain storage capacity of 38.16 million 50 kg bag equivalents at the end of 2025. Uasin Gishu, Nakuru and Nairobi accounted for about two-fifths of the total.
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2023
Shared scale · 0 bag equivalents to 5,689,800 bag equivalents
2024
Shared scale · 0 bag equivalents to 5,689,800 bag equivalents
2025
Shared scale · 0 bag equivalents to 5,689,800 bag equivalents
Switch year for the 12 counties with the highest leased capacity in 2025. The table retains the complete published county list.
Capacity leased rose by 14.2 million bag equivalents in a year
The national total moved from 14.11 million at the end of 2023 to 23.95 million in 2024 and 38.16 million in 2025. The latest increase was about 59%. Source 1
Nakuru recorded the largest increase in the table
Nakuru rose from 1.34 million bag equivalents in 2024 to 5.38 million in 2025. Nairobi rose from 1.53 million to 4.14 million, and Uasin Gishu rose from 3.54 million to 5.69 million. Source 1
County paths varied
Bungoma’s leased capacity more than doubled between the 2024 and 2025 snapshots, reaching 3.21 million bag equivalents. Turkana moved from 842,400 to 180,000 over the same period. The table supports comparison across each county’s three observation dates. Source 1
Capacity leased and grain stored are separate measures
An equivalent 50 kg bag gives a common unit for storage capacity. A million bag equivalents corresponds to 50,000 tonnes of nominal capacity. The figure does not record how much grain was physically in a warehouse or moved through it during the year. Source 1