Kengkhar Geog Administration

20/01/2026

☕️🌱 A proud moment for Kengkhar Gewog! 🌱☕️
Today, the Oloki–Tsalabi Coffee Group successfully harvested their coffee after attending an exposure program at Pemaling Gewog. What makes this harvest special is not just the cherries, but the learning behind it.
The farmers carefully observed, learned new techniques, and came back to implement those ideas directly in their own fields. Today’s harvest is a true reflection of their dedication, hard work, and willingness to learn and grow.
This is a beautiful example of how exposure, knowledge sharing, and community effort can turn ideas into results. 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾🌿
Kudos to the Oloki–Tsalabi Coffee Group for showcasing that learning never stops and progress begins when knowledge is put into action!

04/01/2026

04/01/2026

Three-days exposure program on coffee plantation at Pemaling Gewog, Samtse, one of Bhutan’s leading regions for successful coffee cultivation. This initiative is part of Kengkhar Gewog’s preparation for large-scale coffee plantation in Oloki–Tsalabi Chiwog.
The plantation initiative is being supported by the LAPBED Project. During the three-day program, participating farmers were provided hands-on exposure to various aspects of coffee production, including plantation techniques, post-harvest processing, and basic bookkeeping practices. The program aims to strengthen farmers’ capacity and enhance their readiness for sustainable coffee cultivation and enterprise development.

26/09/2025

The gewog committee, in coordination with Dasho Dzongdag, is actively monitoring the progress of the blacktopping works to ensure timely completion and quality compliance.

11/09/2025

༉ སྐྱེངས་མཁར་ལོ་བསྟར་ཚེས་བཅུའི་འཆམ་དང་ཞབས་ཁྲ་སྦྱང་བ་འབད་བའི་འཐོང་སྣང་ལགས།

07/08/2025

📢 8th Gewog Tshogde Successfully Conducted ✅

Today, Kengkhar Gewog conducted its 8th Gewog Tshogde, where we prioritized and finalized the activities for the fiscal year and allocated our annual gewog grant.

We are pleased to share that activities under the European Union funding were also thoroughly discussed and prioritized. All planned activities are aligned with and fulfill the Local Government Key Result Areas (LGKRA).

The Tshogde was graced by the active participation of all key stakeholders, including representatives from the Health, Education, and Forestry sectors, along with observers from the chiwogs, ensuring transparency and inclusivity in the decision-making process.

We thank all participants for their valuable input and continued support in our collective effort towards community development.

04/08/2025

📢 Public Meeting Update | Kengkhar Gewog 📢

Today, the Kengkhar Gewog Administration successfully conducted a public meeting with our community members.

📊 We presented the Financial Report for FY 2024–2025 and shared details of the Approved Budget for FY 2025–2026 to ensure transparency and public awareness.

🏥 Our Health Assistant Mr. Rinchen Thinley and Mr. Ashal Rai also gave an informative presentation on health-related issues and data analysis, highlighting key health concerns in our gewog.

📝 The meeting also covered several important agendas:

💧 Discussion on the Water Pump Bill

🌱 Introduction of the “Nangzom” initiative

🚙 Proper use of the Gewog Utility Vehicle

👥 Formation of a Community Monitoring Team for better grassroots-level involvement

Thank you to all who attended and contributed. Together, we continue to build a more informed and engaged community. 💪

06/05/2025

LAPBED approach coffee plantation consultation meeting at oloki on 30-02-2025

04/05/2025

A consultation meeting was held at Oloki-Tsalabi chiwog on 30th April to discuss the cultivation of coffee following the local Area potential-based economic development (LAPBED) approach to explore the feasibility of coffee cultivation as an alternative cash crop. This initiative comes in response to the consecutive three years of drought and rising temperatures that have severely impacted maize production, the village’s main staple crop.

The meeting was organized and facilitated by the Department of Local Government and Disaster Management (DLGDM) and supported by the European Union. The DLGDM team was led by the Program Officer and Research Officer, accompanied by the Dzongkhag Planning Officer, Economic Development and Marketing Officer, and the Dzongkhag Agriculture Officer. From the Gewog, the Gup, Gewog Administrative Officer (GAO), Agriculture Extension Officer, and Chiwog Tshogpa were present and hosted the meeting.

The primary objectives of the consultation were to assess the suitability of coffee cultivation in the region, promote alternative livelihood options, and create awareness on potential market strategies. A key outcome of the meeting was the formation of a women's cooperative farmers' group dedicated to coffee farming. The team also encouraged the group to diversify into seedling production alongside coffee beans, enhancing both economic resilience and local entrepreneurship. Furthermore the meeting encouraged the revitalization of fallow land.

Additionally, officials from the neighboring Jurmey Gewog, including the Gup, GAO, and Agriculture Extension Officer, attended the meeting. After observing the discussions and feasibility, they expressed interest in initiating similar coffee-based projects in their own gewog, where maize cultivation is also being adversely affected by climate-related challenges.

The consultation marks a significant step towards climate-resilient agriculture in Kengkhar Gewog and reflects the strong collaboration between local communities, government agencies, and development partners.

24/02/2024

སྐྱེངས་མཁར་དུང་འཁོར་དགོན་པར་གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ཟླ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་དང་འབྲེལ། སྤྱིར་གྱི་ཕན་བདེ་འབྱུང་གནས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་ལ་ཡུན་རིང་དུ་གནས་པ་དང་། དེ་འཛིན་གྱི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཚད་མར་གྱུར་པ་རིས་མེད་ཀྱི་བླ་ཆེད་དང་དབུ་འཕང་མཐོ་བའི་འཕགས་པའི་དགེ་འདུན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚེ་རིང་ཞིང་འགྲོ་དོན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱས་པ་དང་། ལྷག་པར་འབྲུག་མི་བསོད་ནམས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ལས་འཁྲུངས་པའི་ལྷ་སྐལ་མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡབ་མེས་ཡུམ་སྲས་དང་བཅས་པའི་སྐུ་འཁོར་ལྷན་རྒྱས། གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་གྱི་ཕྱག་ལཱ་གནང་མི་བློན་པོ་ལྷན་རྒྱས། དད་དམ་འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་འབངས་མི་སེར་ཡོངས་ལ་ ནད་ཡམས་ མུ་གེ་ འཁྲུག་རྩོད་ལ་སོགས་པ་མི་མཐུན་པའི་ཕྱོགས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཞི་ནས། རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱིད་དཔལ་འཛོམས་ཀྱི་ལྟ་བ་ལོངས་སུ་སྤྱོད་ནས་གནས་སྐབས་ལྷ་དང་མིའི་ལམ་ནས་རྒྱུད་དེ་མཐར་ཐུག་རྐང་གཉིས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་འགྱུར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་གོ་འཕང་འཐོབ་ཆེད་རང་ཟླ་དང་པའི་ཚེས་༨ལས་༡༤་མཚུན་རྒྱལ་བའི་བཀའ་འགྱུར་ཆེན་མོ་དག་ཚར་གནང་རྒྱུ་མཐོང་སྣང་ཕུལ་བ།།