Tirap District is predominantly an agrarian district where 90% of the population depends upon Agriculture for its livelihood. The system of Agriculture is traditional jhuming i.e. “Slash and burn.In spite of vast area brought under cultivation annually the district is deficit in food production.The ratio of food demand and food production is increasing each passing day. Keeping the above fact in view the department of agriculture has been trying its best to involve the farmers of the district to augment their food production through various departmental schemes. The following are some of the departmental schemes/programmes being made available at their (farmers) door steps.