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GEWOG PROFILE.
Lungnyi Gewog has a total area of 59.7 Sq.Km of which 12687.50 acres are covered by forest and it has elevation ranging from 2,200 to 3,400 meters above the sea level. The gewog lies in the central region of the Dzongkgag. The gewog shares its boundary with Shaba and Wangchang gewogs in the East, in the North it shares with lamgong and Wangchang gewogs, in the South with Naja gewog. The gewog also shares the Dzongkhag boundary with Haa Dzongkhag in the West.
The Gewog consists of 7 Chewogs, namely Bondey, Jewphu, Nyemjo, Dzongdakha, Pangpesa, Jatana and Wochu. The Gewog has a total of 265 households.
About 98% of the households have piped drinking water facility and over 100% households have electricity connections. The gewog has 6 km of farm road providing access to the gewog.
A Livestock Extension Center (LEC), Agriculture Extension Center (AE0), provides extension services in the gewog. Health and medical facilities are provided by the Outreach clinic (ORC) at Paro Hospital. Other than that the gewog has many government institutions located, namely Druk Seed Corporatopn, Agriculture Machinery Center, Post-Harvest Unit, Civil Aviation and Wang Watershed Management Project.
Services in the gewog are:
Sl. No. Services As of 2006
1 Lower Secondary School 1 Nos.
2 NFE centre 1 Nos.
3 Community Primary School 1 Nos. Prvt.
4 Farm Road 1 Nos.
5 Forest road 2 Nos.
6 Irrigation channel 5 Nos.( 9 Km)
7 Suspension Bridge 4 Nos.
8 Concrete Bridge 1 Nos.
9 Farm Road 9 Nos. ( 34 KM)
10 ORC 2 Nos.
Though the gewog is centrally located agricultural land use is dominated by dry land closely followed by wetland cultivation. Paddy and wheat are the principal cereal crops cultivated while apple and potatoes are the major cash crops cultivated in the gewog.
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