FINAL REPORT

Crops Potatoes Carrots Tomatoes Cucumbers
Onions Cabbages Turnips Watermelons
Honeydew
Melons
Price 70-400 70-700 150-1000 150-500 150- 80-300 70-200 100- 150-500
(MNT)
1000
400
Average 150 150 400 200 400 150 150 175 200
price*
(MNT)
Marketed 463.1 78.6 68.1 7.7 3.55 120 63.8 176.5 38.5
amount (t)
Revenues 69.47 11.79 27.24 1.54 1.42 18 9.57 30.88 7.70
(million
MNT)
* for which most farmers sold their crops Source: Survey results, June
2006
Table 29: Crop Prices paid to Surveyed Households and Revenues from Marketing, Buyant sum
(2005/2006)
Thus calculated, on average each household had approximately 3.55 million MNT revenues
from crop marketing.
Regarding the expenses for inputs, the following information was given:
One truck of natural fertilizer from dung costs between 10,000 and 30,000 MNT -depending
on whether it is being delivered to the farmers or whether the farmers buy it themselves from
the herders. For 1 ha up to 10 trucks of dung fertilizer is used. 50 kg nitrate fertilizer costs
30,000 MNT, for 1 ha up to 400 kg nitrate fertilizer is used. 1litre of herbicides costs about
10,000 -15,000 MNT, for 1 ha 1.5 l is used. Some producers noted that the herbicides sold by
projects had no effects on weeds. It costs approximately 100,000 MNT to have 1 ha land
ploughed. During summer there is a need to use a cultivator twice, which costs about 100,000
MNT. But this measure is only implemented by more wealthy farmers with larger fields. In
case field workers are employed, their salary amounts to 1,500 -2,000 MNT per day, along
with free meals. Many farmers produce seeds by themselves. Occasionally, farmers purchase
new seeds to improve the quality of their seeds. Seed prices were stated as follows:
Seed potato –1 kg 350MNT: For 1 ha 2-3 t seed potatoes are needed
Carrot seeds –1 kg 25,000MNT: For 1 ha 3 kg carrot seeds are needed
Turnip seeds –1 kg 45,000 MNT:For 1 ha 1.5 kg turnip seeds are needed
For 7 ha crop land the “State Champion Farmer” reported inputs of about 2,000,000 MNT;
another farmer with 0.35 ha stated to need 200,000 MNT input. On average, the expenses for
inputs, services and labour force like fertilizers, herbicides, ploughing, workers salary and
land fees amounted to approximately 445,000 MNT per household. Thus average income
from crop farming amounts to approximately 3.1million MNTper household.
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