Honorable Minister for agriculture and cooperatives holds the overall charge of the Ministry and the secretary is the administrative head and the chief adviser to the Minister on policy, planning and administration. The Ministry is the central apex body of Government of Nepal to look after the agriculture and allied fields in the kingdom. The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives consists of five divisions, two centers, one research and development council, four departments, four projects and autonomous bodies of one research council, four corporations and a few development committees and boards.In and under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives there are more than 10,000 employees of which about 12 percent are officer, around 50 percent are non-gazetted staffs and rest of them are class less typists, drivers and peons.

Agriculture development program are run in all 75 districts, several agricultural services centers and in thousands of pocket areas at the grass root levels. The supervision and technical backstopping in the regional level are done through five regional directorates each for agriculture and livestock departments.