FINAL REPORT

Thus calculated, on average each household had approximately 2.3 million MNT revenues
from crop marketing. The expenses for inputs, services, and labour force -like fertilizers,
herbicides, ploughing, workers salary and land fees -on average amounted to approximately
300,000 MNT per household.
Amount
2,500
2300
2,000
1,500
1,000 818
500
179 103
0
0
Sheep
Goats
Cattle/Yaks
Horses
Other
Source: Survey results, June 2006
Thus, average income from
crop farming amounts to
almost 2 million MNT per
household.
Besides crop farming, 39 of
the surveyed households also
own livestock. For the
remaining 20 households
cultivation agriculture is the
Figure 54:Livestock of Surveyed Households, Khovd sum (2006) main source of income.
Fig. 54 shows the composition of households’ livestock herds. They are dominated by goats
which comprise 68% of all livestock and 24% are sheep, which are kept for meat supply.
None had camels nor chickens or pigs. Compared to other livestock, goats generate high
incomes - therefore agropastoralists prefer to keep goats. In spring, sales income from
cashmere covers costs of inputs spent for cultivation. Total revenues from marketing livestock
products like cashmere, hide, skin, and camel and sheep wool amounted to approximately
310,000 MNTper household on average.
Animal
husbandry
12%
Pensions
and Child's
allowance
8%
Cultivation
agriculture
80%
Source: Survey results, June 2006
Figure 55: Shares of Household Income, Khovd sum (2005/06)
Further sources of revenue were
pensions and child’s allowances
amounting 201,000 MNT per
household on average.
Thus, household’s income was
2.5 million MNTon average, of
which 80% were generated
from cultivation agriculture,
12% from animal husbandry
and 8% from pensions and
child’s allowances (see Fig.
55).
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