Ulaanbaatar
Government launches programme to promote animal farming
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The cabinet on February 22 approved the Best Herder Programme at its regular meeting. The project, aiming at improved productivity and economic efficiency of animal farming, will be implemented under supervision of Minister of Food and Agriculture R.Burmaa, Minister of Population Development and Social Welfare S.Erdene, and the boards of the Development Bank and the State Bank.
Main purposes of the project are to increase herdsmen’s access to financial services that are rendered during a "production-delivery to customer" process, and to regularly introduce the latest hi tech in the livestock herding and farming. By this, the project team expects an increase in income of livestock herding families, farmers and herders’ cooperatives.
The programme will be implemented until 2020, in two stages.
