Ulaanbaatar
Harvesting running at 46 percent in Selenge aimag
Economy | Agriculture
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/
The rural working trip of Mongolia’s Prime Minister continues in Selenge aimag.
In Selenge aimag,
there are 350 agrarian entities and 150 individuals working on 305.5 thousand
hectares of areas. The aimag utilizes its farming areas completely, by
annually sowing grain, animal fodder and oil plants on 180 thousand hectares of
area and preparing 140 thousand hectares of fallow land. Presently, the aimag’s
harvesting is running at 46 percent, reported Sh.Orgil, governor of the aimag.
About pressing issues for the aimag, the governor
told the PM that if a 110km earth road named ‘Grain road’ that passes through
territories of four soums is paved, it will be very helpful to thousands of
farmers.
The aimag is striving
to have its own potato variety ‘Selenge’, for which the aimag is collaborating
with ‘Elite seeds’ company.
Sixteen out of the
aimag’s 17 soums are regarded as the farming region, which makes a necessity to
transfer pasturing livestock into intensified animal husbandry, to fence
farming areas as well as others.
