FINAL REPORT

Camel Horses Cattle Sheep Goats Total
120,000
100,000
Livestock
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
Year
Figure 72:Livestock Development and Composition, Buyant sum (1983-2005)
Source: Statistics provided by theaimag administration
Cultivation Agriculture
In Buyant sum, 1,976 ha are classified as land for crop farming (ALAGAC, 2005). The
majority of these potential farmlands are located in Norjinkhairkhan bag in the Buyant River
Delta. During socialism, a fodder crop farm was established in Buyant sum. Together with the
negdel’s crop fields, up to over 2,000 ha farmland was cultivated each year with fodder crops,
cereals, potatoes,vegetables and melons 26 (see Fig. 73).
2,500
2,000
Vegetable Potatoes Cereals Fodder Crops Total
Sown Area
1,500
1,000
500
0
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
Year
Figure 73: Sown Area of Buyant sum (1980-2005)
Source: Statistics provided by the aimag and sum administration
After the dissolution of the fodder crop farm and the negdel, the sown area declined sharply
and the irrigation facilities went out of use. Cultivation of fodder crops and cereals ceased to
almost zero. Since the mid of the 1990s crop farming is increasing again. Nowadays private
26 In the statistics, melons are counted as vegetables.
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