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Lunana

Lunana Gewog is the most remote Gewog in Bhutan. It takes ten days walk from the nearest motorable road and eight days from Dzongkhag Headquarters. It has dispersed settlement with 150 households.

The Gewog has cold and harsh climate through out the year, with altitudes ranging from 7000 to over 8000 feet above sea level.

The soil types found in the Gewog are sandy clay, loam, sandy loam and clay loam. However, due to harsh weather condition, agriculture cultivation is limited to dry land cropping only with short harvesting season.

The topography of the Gewog ranges from high mountains and mostly with shrubs. The gewog has very marginal agricultural land holding. The Gewog's hot spring is located at Wachey village.

The Gewog has only 88.69 acres of dry land and 6.89 acres of Tshosa, but has the highest registered Tshamdo measuring 18,744.54 acres for livestock rearing.

In the Gewog, there are 3 Lhakhangs. Mule track is the only route to communicate to the Gewog. Presently the Gewog is facilitated with only one BHU manned by one Health worker; a Community school with two teachers and one Livestock Extension centre. Community School and Livestock Extension Centre remain open from June to September and by mid October these centres are closed due to heavy snowfall. Most of the people also migrate to Wangdue, Punakha and other nearby Dzongkhag in search of manual work and also for barter trade with their yak products with necessary items like chilly, rice and others. The Puna Phochu originates from this Gewog. Half of the families of the gewog are nomadic and spend their entire life rearing yak on high mountains during summer and in the lower altitude during summer.

Harsh climatic condition during winter with scanty rainfall and heavy snowfall act as obstruction to carry out agriculture and socio-economic development in the Gewog. Depredation on domestic animals by wild life, low population, absence of motorable road, and limited land holding are some of the difficulties faced by the community.

The present livelihood earning is through livestock rearing. The community has high expectation of development in Livestock, Agriculture, Health, Education, Telecommunication, Mule tracks, Bridges, Tshachu ( Hot Springs) and other activities in the ninth plan.


 
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