Cabinet approves National Program on promotion of intensive animal husbandry www.montsame.mn
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.
Published Date:2018-12-27