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    Agriculture Department

    Introduction:

    The department of Agriculture is one of the oldest departments in the region. Since its establishment, the department served the farming community of this region from disseminating scientific technologies for increasing the crop production, seed distribution, supply of agri- machineries, off season vegetable cultivation, introduction of new vegetable varieties; which has resulted in improving the living standard of the people and boosting the economy of the farmers during the course of time.

    Vision:

    To transform agriculture in Ladakh into sustainable, remunerative, attractive and dignified occupation by blending the traditional with advanced system, giving due respect to the scare natural resources and conservation of the fragile environment.

    In a nutshell “Sustainable Agriculture for enough food, employment and wealth is the vision of Agriculture Department of UT Ladakh”. Increasing production & productivity and return on investment in Agriculture for the welfare of the farmers.

    Objectives

    • . Making the farmers aware of latest inputs and innovations in agriculture and guide them through entire cultivation cycle to grow crops both for their captive as well as commercial consumption;
    • . Implementing on ground all the Centrally Sponsored Schemes in the realm of Agriculture;
    • . Providing HYV seeds/ Hybrids and quality planting material;
    • . Promotion of Soil Health through Integrated Nutrient Management and use of Soil Health Cards;
    • . Promoting Diversification in Cropping /Farming Systems and Organic Farming;
    • . Special focus on creation of irrigation infrastructure (Per Drop More Crop & Har Khet Ko panni);
    • . Promotion of Post Harvest Management Practices, Integrated Pest Management and Prevention of Post Harvest Losses;
    • . Creation of post harvest Infrastructure in Agriculture such as Warehousing, Cold chains, Refer-Vans & Mandis;
    • . Promotion of Farm Mechanization with special focus on Hill Agriculture;
    • . Promotion of Ancillary activities such as Mushroom, Forestry, Vermi-composting, etc.;
    • . Promotion of Value Addition, Branding, Tagging, and Micro Food Enterprises;
    • . Promotion of off-season vegetables by way of Protected cultivation (Green houses, etc.).
    S. No Name Designation Email Tel.no
    1 Shri Bhupesh Chaudhary , IAS Administrative Secretary pstoadmsecy123@gmail.com 01982-258365
    2 Shri Ravi Shanker, JKAS Deputy Secretary pstoadmsecy123@gmail.com 9596662293
    3 Shri  Thinles Dawa Joint Director jdagricultureutladakh@gmail.com 9622181920
    4 Shri Ashik Hussain Basharat Chief Agriculture Officer, Kargil caokargil@gmail.com 9419176085
    5 Shri Thinles Dawa Chief Agriculture Officer, Leh depttagricultureleh@gmail.com 9419176547
    S.no Name of the Schemes
    I- Component under Krishonnati Yo-ana
    1 Agriculture Extension (ATMA)
    2 Food & Nutrition Security
    a) Wheat
    b) Pulses
    c) Nutri Cereals
    3 National Mission on Edible Oils-Oils Seeds
    4 Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
    II Component under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yo-ana RKVY
    1 RWY (DPR Based)
    2 Per Drop More crop (PDMC)
    3 Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
    4 Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization

    SMAM

    5 Soil Health and Fertility (SH & F)
    6 Agro-forestry
    7 Rainfed Area Development (RAD)
    New Scheme (2025-26)
    1 National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF)
    S. No Name of the Officer   Designation PIO/APIOs FAA
    1 Shri Ravi Shanker, JKAS Deputy Secretary PIO Shri Bhupesh Chaudhary, IAS.
    2 Shri Ashik Hussain Basharat Chief Agriculture Officer, Kargil PIO  Shri Bhupesh Chaudhary, IAS.
    3 Shri Thinles Dawa District Agriculture Officer, Leh PIO  Shri Bhupesh Chaudhary, IAS.
    General Administration Department
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    Conduct of training programme on e-Office for User LeveI-I (Beginners) and Users Level-II (Advanced) at NIELIT, Leh- Nomination of Officer/Officials for undergoing the offline training programme thereof. 06/03/2023
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    Allocation of Additional posts to the Finance Department. 06/03/2023
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    Constitution of UT/Divisional Level Departmental Promotion Committee for Labour & Employment Department (Defence Labour Organisation). 03/03/2023
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    Constitution of UT/Divisional Level Departmental Promotion Committee for Culture Department (Archives, Archaeology and Museums) 03/03/2023
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    Three day workshop on Government Process Re-engineering (GPR) and Change Management-Deputation of Officer/Official. 03/03/2023
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    Designation of officer as Additional Secretary to the Administration. 02/03/2023
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    Order No. 48-LA(GAD) of 2023- Two days Regional Conference on “Implementation of recommendation of National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA)-2021 and saturation of e-services across States/UTs”-Deputation of Officer/Official thereof. 01/03/2023
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    Order No: -47-LA(GAD) of 2023- Deputation of official from UT of J&K to Union territory of Ladakh. 01/03/2023
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    Order No: – 45-LA(GAD) of 2023- Constitution of Destination Management Committee (DMC) for Leh and Kargil Town for Implementation of Swadesh Darshan 2.0 (SD 2.0) in UT of Ladakh. 23/02/2023
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    Constitution of UT Level Committee for Decentralized Deployment of Disaster Management Infrastructure. 21/02/2023
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