The Qamata Irrigation Scheme is one of the four schemes that falls under Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. The irrigation schemes were the initiative of the former Transkei government, and all currently require rehabilitation. The Scheme was designed for individual farmers, not communities or cooperatives, which are currently being promoted. The Qamata Irrigation Scheme, it is claimed, started falling apart with the exit of the then Transkei Agricultural Corporation (TRACOR), the Transkei government parastatal whose main objective was to give financial and technical services to small scale independent farmers. At Qamata, TRACOR was responsible for the day to day running and management of the Irrigation Scheme on behalf of the 1 500 farmers that were members of the scheme, in exchange for a number of bags from their produce. The farmers, some of whom are still members of the Scheme, do not have ownership entitlement to the land as it was allotments given to them by the former Transkei government.