<span style="color: #222222;">In Leh district, the Agriculture department and the administration have fought back the adversaries of Climate Change. Agricultural activities have been revived at an abandoned Kulum village with the  application of micro irrigation technologies. Kulum, a village with two hamlets has been abandoned due to washout of all its water sources by the flash floods of infamous 2010 Cloudburst. AIR Leh Correspondent reports that through the revival of agricultural farming, the villagers migrated as daily wagers to nearby places have been rehabilitated.<br />''<br />''In a program in Kulum village in honor of rehabilitation,  Leh Hill Council Chief Executive Councilor Tashi Gyaltson welcomed the climate change victims. District Agriculture department under the guidance of Ladakh  Autonomous  Hill  Development Council adopted lower Kullum this year for promotion of micro irrigation of  drip and sprinkle systems to create water sources. Micro Irrigation was introduced in large scale for the first time in Ladakh since 2021 – 2022 with the financial support of Special  Development  Package to Ladakh given by the Centre. Kulum is the second  village after Alchi where the central sponsored micro irrigation has been introduced.<br />''<br />''With motto of Back to Villages , the trial of agricultural  farming started in June this year with two cash crops – summer squash and  Potatoes and one forage crop Alfalfa have been  yielded  within short time of trials two and half months. Now, the hill council has decided to promote it as model for other villages for its replication. The micro irrigation system is applied with deep borwell supported by the installation of Solar Photovoltaic Cell Water lifting pump set. This is another step in ensuring  Prime  Minister  Narendra  Modi's Mantra carbon neutrality to Ladakh. To motivate the resistant  and sceptical villagers with lost hope,  the  functionaries of the  Agriculture  Department like gardeners have engaged during the conceiving stage to become the partners in the revival trials.<br />''<br />''Project Success has raised ray of hope for the other  villagers  of upper hamlet of village who have started  to introduce the technology  by next season. Executive  Councilor  for Agriculture  Stanzin Chosphel said Horticulture  Department  will join  the Agriculture  Department  to adopt another hamlet of the Village  for both fruits orchards and vegetables  cultivation to achieve  intercropping.</span><br />