1. Secretariat

   It is headed by hon'ble Minister for Agriculture, assisted by an officer of the cadre of Principal Secretary/ Secretary. The Principal Secretary Agriculture and Co-operation is the administrative head in the secretariat on behalf of the State Government assisted by Joint Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Asst. Secretaries, Section Officers and Sub staff.

2. Commissionerate of Agriculture

   The Head of the dept. is Commissioner of Agriculture, who is senior IAS Officer. He virtually handles the post of Director of Agriculture also. He is assisted by Five Additional Directors of Agriculture, of whom one Additional DA is the principal, SAMETI Old Malakpet and other four are stationed in the Commissionerate of Agriculture.

At the District level the Department is headed by Joint Director of Agriculture and assisted by DDAs ADAs and AOs at District, Division and Mandal levels

The Divisional ADA is the head of the Agriculture division and assisted by the agricultural officers at the mandal level. There are 254 divisions in the state

In all the 1105 Rural and Urban mandals of the state , atleast one Agriculture Officer is working in each mandal. These AOs are assisted by few Agricultural Extension Officers in the field work

Sl.No	Cadre	Commssionerate	Districts	Total
1	Commnr .&Director of Agril.	1	-	1
2	Additional Directors of Agril.	5	-	5
3	Jt. Directors of Agril	6	24	30
4	Dy. Directors of Agril	9	66	75
5	Asst.Directors of Agril	18	483	511
6	Agril. Officers	39	2001	2040
7	Agril. Extn Officers	-	4497	4497
Total				7159

The Department has setup five pesticide testing laboratories, five FCO Laboratories, two seed Testing Laboratories 82 SoilTesting Laboratories(including AMC level) and -14 Biological Control Laboratories in the state