The Department of Agriculture, Punjab was constituted a long ago during the British Regime in 1960.A.D. The first set of rules was framed in the year 1933. The Director of Agriculture was the Head of the Department and presently his headquarter is at Chandigarh. He is normally a highly qualified person in Agricultural sciences. He acts as Agricultural Advisor to the State of Punjab in addition to his responsibilities for planning organizing, execution and supervision of techniques of production programmes. The foremost duty is to increase agricultural production of the State and to help in contributing a major portion of food grains to the central pool, thus to make the country self-sufficient. The Director also helps in framing marketing policies. He advises the Govt. for agro-based industries also. The Director of Agriculture also monitors the input supplies i.e. seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, irrigation power, diesel, etc.