Welcome to the Livestock Project website!

The Livestock sub-sector is important to the national economy of Mongolia. It generates 80% of total income of the agriculture sector and provides livelihood security of more than 800,000 people or around 1/3 of the total population. The agriculture sector itself contributes to around 20 % of the national economy. Since 1999 a negative sequence of extremely harsh winters and dry summers that lasted until 2002 reduced the livestock population by almost 30 %. However, thanks to the favorable weather conditions recent few years the livestock population reached 40 million. Nowadays, the main challenges of livestock sub-sector development are low livestock animal productivity as well as low quality of animal products, inadequate animal health services, degraded pastureland, unsustainable stocking rate, limited access to markets and under developed value chains. To address these challenges, SDC has initiated several major projects to support Mongolia. These include the “Green Gold” Pasture Ecosystem Management Project (2004-2012), the Coping with Desertification Project (2007-2014) and the “Baruun Mongol” Regional Economic Development Project (2008-2015). In the livestock sector, SDC has implemented a number of small action projects which are enhancement of the equipment capacity of the Veterinary Drug Testing Laboratory; co-funding of a livestock intensification study together with UNDP; a training seminar on brucellosis. The Sustainable Livestock Management Project will complement the SDC portfolio addressing livestock productivity and production management issues.

Main goal

Contribute to increased livestock productivity through enhancement of sustainable herd management skills of herder households.

Objective

The objective of the project’s pilot phase is to establish an effective implementation mechanisms and demonstrate the first positive effects of increasing livestock productivity, value additions of livestock products and income.

Components

Increase livestock animal productivity and sustainable herd management

Policy dialogue and support to Brucellosis control

Yak and camel productivity and value chain development

General policy dialogue, sub-sector coordination, knowledge generation and management