SARBHANG

The district map of Sarbhang

The Sarbhang District is located in the central part of the southern foothills bordering Assam. Lhamoy Zingkha in the west separates it from Chhuka and Manas National Park in the east separates it from Shemgang, covering a total area of about 2288 sq km. It has plains and mountain terrains with an elevation ranging from 200m to 3600 m above sea level.

The district is divided into two Dungkhags* and 14 geogs and geogs are further divided into number of chiwogs. Geographical coordinates for the districts are 26° 52' 0" North and 90° 16' 0" East but precisely central part of the district lies at 26.86667⁰ North and latitude and 90.26667⁰ East longitude.

Northern part of the district is covered with low hills, terrain field and forests while the southern part is plain land. Due to flat land, it is one of the heavily cultivated districts and is sometimes referred to as the food basket of the country.

Around 12 percent of the total land is under agriculture while northern hills are used for dry farming such as barley, maize or millet. Paddy is abundant in southern plains. Cash crops such as orange, areca nut, cardamom, ginger, guava, lemon, banana and mango are grown extensively and major market for these cash crops is neighboring India.  

Favorable terrain and climatic conditions combined with fertile agriculture land offer tremendous opportunity for farm mechanization and commercial horticultural development.

* Lhamoizingkha Dungkhag was handed over to Daganda district administration on 26 April 2007. 

(Photo source: Dzongkhag Office, Sarbhang)

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