Ulaanbaatar
Minister about meat export
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Food and Agriculture R.Burmaa MP reports on terms of veterinary services and quarantine with foreign countries in frames of meat process, entities allowed to export meat, meat export size in 2015-2016.
By a preliminary census of livestock, she said at the cabinet meeting on Monday, Mongolia counted 70.6 million heads of livestock in a first half of this year. There are 42 meat processing factories, 145 factories of sausage and conserved products, and 21 factories of semi-processed meat and meat products, she went on.
Mongolia has established contracts on export and import of livestock products with Russia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and some Arabian countries. As for China, its General Authority of Quality Monitoring and Quarantine permitted five Mongolian companies to supply meat and meat products to China, she noted.
Mongolia intends to prepare meat of 10.4 million heads of livestock for the domestic needs, and 5.6 million heads of livestock for the export, which means that 126.3 thousand tons of meat will be exported, said Burmaa.
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