The development changes in Mongolian agricultural management during the transition to market economy: A case study of the intensive dairy sector
2008
Tuvshinbat, D.(Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture (Japan)) | Niinuma, K.
The purpose of this study is to define the changes and problems in agricultural management development, through the example of intensive dairy farm management during the transition to a market economy in Mongolia. As a result, several issues of Mongolian agricultural management following the transition to a market economy have been clarified. In general, agricultural production has fallen, especially around the cities because of the collapse of state-owned, large-scale farms and agricultural units, and dairy farmers cannot receive services such as technological support or medical care from the government. Furthermore, although the supply of milk and dairy products that are one of the main products of Mongolian animal husbandry is stable in the whole country, the balance of supply and demand has suffered sharply in the urban area. After the transition to a market economy, small-scale semi-intensive dairy farms have taken the main role of supplying urban milk demand. Farmers were asked to provide detailed information on the financial aspects of their dairy activities. It was made clear that there are differences of farm-scales in the milk production of each farm and hence in it's feeding value, and other related costs. For future development, farmers' co-operation in feeding trials, transportation and production of fodder crops are the important issues.
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