MILK PROCESSING SMALL PLANTS TO BE ESTABLISHED IN SIX SOUMS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On May 4, equipment of milk processing small plant were handed over to six soums of four aimags within the framework of a project ‘Increasing Job in Mongolia: Development of Value Added Network of Animal Product and Vegetable Production with Participation of Private Sector’. Milk processing small plants named 'Ger kitchen’ are planned to be built in six soums in scope of UNFAO technical cooperation program ‘Improving Local Dairy Processing through promoting women’ (TCP/MON/3606), the subproject of the abovementioned project. Each milk processing small plant will have daily capacity of processing up to 500 liter milk and producing 5-6 types of dairy products using up-to-date technology. Operation of a plant is expected to provide ten people with jobs and to make annual sale of MNT 127.9 million, earning MNT 7.1 million net profit. Furthermore, 12 people who involved in teacher training conducted trainings to more than 120 women from six local milk processing groups on methods and practices to process traditional dairy products that meet food standards and sanitary requirements using ‘Ger kitchen’ equipment. The project is making contribution to develop production of diary products in rural area, to introduce modern technology and to increas types of products. B.Batchimeg