Kenya Wildlife Service game rangers have been deployed to Chepsir, Kipkelion East subcounty to control stray elephants that have invaded maize farms.
The jumbos, which the KWS officials say are from the Mau West forest, have destroyed hundreds of acres of maize crop.
Kericho county game warden Paul Sigilai said the elephants are moving in herds of three and 10.
Speaking to journalists in his Kericho town office on Friday, Sigilai said KWS is collecting data on the crops destroyed to help in the compensation of the affected farmers.
He said effective measures have been put in place to keep the elephants away from farms.
Sigilai said a lasting solution to the current problem is to erect an electric fence along the Mau West Forest.
Hardly a year passes without elephants invading maize farms.
Two years back, a bull elephant nearly attacked an airborne helicopter that was being used to drive it back to the forest.
The helicopter pilot had to apply reverse gear to avoid an attack by the bull elephant.
The elephant had travelled some 10km deep into the rural area from Mau forest, leaving behind the destruction of maize plantations before being driven back to the forest by the pilot.
The presence of the elephants in the forest had attracted poachers and for decades several illegal hunters had been arrested while in possession of tusks.
Anti-poaching wardens had on several occasions confiscated giant snares mounted by poachers in the dense forest.
