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Harkot
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Hierarchy
Growing Region Western Himalayas
Growing Area Gori Valley
Geography
Country India
Province/State Uttarakhand
District Pithoragarh District
Tehsil Munsyari Tehsil
Coordinates 30.0515, 80.2569
Settlement
Type Village
Population 301 (2011)
Documentation
Accessions 1

Harkot is a village in Munsyari tehsil, Pithoragarh District, Uttarakhand, India, in the Gori Valley growing area. The 2011 census counted 301 people in 64 households.[1] One landrace cannabis accession was collected from the village in September 2025.

Geography

Harkot lies 7 km from Munsyari, the tehsil headquarters, and 137 km from Pithoragarh, the district headquarters. The village covers 181 ha.[1] OpenStreetMap places it about 2.7 km south-east of Munsyari.

People

Of the 301 people counted in 2011, 123 were men and 178 women. Of them, 124 belonged to Scheduled Castes and 129 to Scheduled Tribes.[1]

Cannabis

The accession is seed of a landrace general population from the 2024 harvest, collected on 24 September 2025 on the UTT01 expedition. It describes a short-day crop sown in May and June and harvested from September to November, from seed kept from locally grown flower, grown in monoculture, intercropped and in rotation, for several uses.

Accessions

 NameIDTypeElevation (m)Collected
ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250029Harkot General Population 2024ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250029General population2040

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand. District Census Handbook, Pithoragarh (Village amenities spreadsheet (DH_2011_DCHB_Village_Release_0500.xlsx)). Census of India 2011, Uttarakhand, Series 06, Part XII-A. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 9 November 2026.