Ulaanbaatar
Cabinet approves National Program on promotion of intensive animal husbandry
Economy | Agriculture
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ At its regular meeting on December 26, the Cabinet approved a National Program on promoting the development of intensive animal husbandry.
Activities to be implemented
within the program will be reflected in the Basic Guideline to Develop
Socio-Economy every year and required funding will be issued from state and
local budgets and foreign loan and assistance. It plans to spend MNT166.3
billion on the program implementation for 2019-2023.
The funding will be spent on
rendering support to build capacity of managers and professional association of
intensive animal husbandry, transfer it into cluster system, import high
productive livestock, naturalize, ensure food safety and introduce technology.
As
a result of the program implementation, it is expected to increase the utilization
of milk producing enterprises by 35 percent, the number of cattle to be bred by
two-fold, output of milk and meat from one cattle by 20 percent and the volume
of milk and meat to be processed industrially by 30 percent.
Moreover,
it aims at zeroing the import of liquid milk and decreasing the import of dried
milk by 30 percent and import of other milk products by 15 percent, alongside
90 percent and 70 percent decreases of egg and honey imports respectively. Furthermore,
it is estimated to improve the fodder provision of intensive animal husbandry by
40 percent and modernization of techniques and technology by 30 percent.
