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Tue, 09/23/2014 - 15:51
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“PRODUCTION OF EGG DOUBLED, CHICKEN AND FODDER IMPORT DECLINED”

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The production of egg increased twice in the last two years, an import of chicken and fodder declined 40% thanks to a policy the cabinet for reforms maintain to support the poultry husbandry. It was said by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture Kh.Zoljargal at the “Hours of great construction” weekly meeting on Monday. He went on that, in frames of a programme on stabilizing the prices of consumer goods, soft loans of MNT 8.6 billion have been given to four companies of egg and chicken productions, and loans of MNT 160 million have been given to 11 enterprisers from reserves of the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture. Now some 20 companies have possessed 550 thousand laying hens nationwide, and the “Tumen shuvuut” and “NVTs” companies have reached international standards, Zoljargal noted. The Mongolians consume some 170 million eggs a year, three years ago a majority of eggs used to be imported, nowadays, this import went down by 40%, he said. “One person consumes 50 eggs a year, which is lower than that of developed countries, so we need to augment the egg production so as to reach 370 million per year. We will not need to import eggs when the ‘NVTs’ and newly founded ‘Bayan shuvuu’ companies will work with a full potential by 2018,” he said. The Ministry also says that measures will be taken to improve a hygiene and to expand a free-of-charge vaccination.

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