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Toewang gewog stretches over an area of 414 sq. km. There are 285 households in the gewog, which currently hold a
population of 1344 people. The gewog comprises of 9 Chiwogs which have 17 villages.
Toewang is one of the remotest gewogs under Punakha Dzongkhag. It
shares its borders with Gasa and Wangdue Phodrang Dzongkhags, with an altitude ranging from1250-3700 m abovethe sea level. It experiences cool winters and
warm, humid summers. The gewog has 622 acres of wetland, 42 acres of dry land, 5.58 acres of vegetable garden, 1 acre of Tsheri, 105 acres of Sokshing, 82
acres of Pangshing and 4268 acres of Tsamdo. The gewog has one Lower Secondary School, one community primary school, one Basic Health Unit (BHU), one Out
Reach Clinic (ORC), one Renewable Natural Resource (RNR) Centre, an Agriculture Extension Centre and one hot spring.
Livestock
The farmers in Toewang Geog basically livestock and agriculture based rearing the local breed of livestock and few improved breeds
like Jersey, Mithun, hybrids of poultry, piggery supplied by the Department of Livestock. The Geog Center has access to motorable road network where most
parts of the villages it is connected with the mule track. The breed upgradation of the cattle is usually done with cross-breeding through artificial
insemination program from the Geog Extension services to the proximity of RNR Center and by natural services through breeding bulls in interior pockets of
the Geog. The Livestock Extension services are being catered by the RNR Center, Samadingkha, located in the Geog Center.
The followings are basic
baseline data of the Geog: -
Table 5: Basic baseline data
Sl/no Livestock Type Nos.
1 Local Cattle 2061
2 Improved
Cattle 304
3 Horses 160
4 Mule & Donkey 23
5 Improve Pigs 96
6 Local Pigs 119
7 Improve Poultry 614
8
Local Poultry 525
9 Any (Specify) - Goat 9
(Livestock census of 2005)
Renewable natural resource: 1 number.
Agriculture extension
center: 1 “
Life stock extension center: null.
Veterinary hospital: null.
Farm road: 1 number with length 7.6 km.
Power tiller tracks:
null.
Community school: 1 number.
Lower secondary school: 1 number.
Middle secondary school : null.
Higher secondary school :
null.
Hospital : null.
Basic health unit : 1number.
Out reach center : 1number.
Suspension bridge : 1number.
Feeder
road : 1number with length 7kms.
Telephone lines : 7-cordect phones.
Electricity : 50% coverage.
Irrigation channel :
2.
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