Just like its uniqueness in geographical location, climate and beauty, agriculture and animal husbandry have their own uniqueness in the cold arid Ladakh region. Its harsh climate and barren and slopey land provide a huge hindrance to agriculture in general and high yielding crops in particular. The topography, dissected with snow clad mountains and interrupted with lush green valleys in low altitudinal areas, offers a conducive environment for livestock rearing. Since, the livestock need fodder, the tribal farmers living in this part of the world has thus adapted himself to mixed agriculture-animal rearing, conquering all the difficulties posed by climate, mono-cropping system, non-availability of irrigation, barren and soil-less land non-adaptability of high yielding crop and animal species. Such is his interdependence on the livestock he rears, that for every 1 human being the livestock number present is 3. The local tribal has benefitted from nutritional and livelihood security to social status and employment from the livestock. The current trend in urbanization has however cast a negative impact on animal husbandry in this region and might harm the interrelation between humans and livestock in a bad way, disturbing the fine ecological balance in this Himalayan range. The shortage of fodder up to the tune of 40-60% shall further compound the problem if long-term sustainable approach taking peculiarities of mountain agriculture into consideration is not planned and practiced in the coming days.