Ulaanbaatar
State Harvest Commission convenes
Economy | Agriculture
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On August 27, the State Harvest Commission convened to discuss current state of crops for harvesting and preliminary estimates for 2019, and make a guideline for harvest technology, taking the weather forecast into consideration.
In 2019, sowing has been made in 512.0 thousand hectares in total, of which wheat in 340.1 thousand hectares, potatoes in 14.8 thousand hectares, vegetables in 8.0 thousand hectares, oil plants in 82.4 thousand hectares and fodder plants in 42.0 thousand hectares nationwide.
Currently, it is estimated that 420.0 thousand tons of wheat, 176.8 thousand tons of potatoes, 91.2 thousand tons of vegetables, 38.0 thousand tons of oil plants and 80.4 thousand tons of fodder plants will be harvested.
However, various weather conditions such as the cool and strong winds in May, overheating that continued for many days and continuous rain in June, negatively affected the sowing process as well as the crops’ growth.
While crops are in fine conditions in the aimags of Bulgan, Khuvsgul, Orkhon, Arkhangai, Uvurkhangai and Uvs alongside some soums of Selenge aimag, the amount of harvest from the aimags of Tuv, Darkhan-Uul, Dornod, Khentii, Sukhbaatar and northern soums of Selenge is expected to be slightly low due to overheating.
With temperature expected to significantly drop in crop areas in late August alongside snow in early September, officials are focusing on developing a guideline on harvest technology for farmers, and provide correlation between government organizations in order to have crops harvested efficiently and in a short period of time.
As a total of 320 thousand tons of wheat is required to produce flour that meet the annual domestic need, sufficient wheat is to be harvested for 2019-2020 according to the preliminary estimate.
