FINAL REPORT

in cities of neighbouring Russian Siberia as well. The project should support the
establishment of small and medium size vegetable and fruit processing enterprises
in Khovd khot and the Buyant river delta area and help to improve the access to
glasses and lids for vegetable and fruit conservation.
Further more the project should help to improve existing and to build new storage
facilities for potatoes, vegetables and fruits in order to avoid quality losses during
the storing period and extend the possible time for processing. In order to secure
the future development of irrigated crop production and the processing enterprises
to be established, the project should assist the Government of Khovd Aimag to
find legal ways to increase tariffs for imported vegetables, fruits, and potatoes.
E. ASPECTS CONCERNING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
The project should offer special training courses on soil protection and organic
farming in order to keep the use of chemicals at a reasonable level. The production
of fertilizer from horn and hoofs should be supported. Farmers and their family
members should be made aware of keeping the ecological situation in balance, e.g.
by protecting ecologically sensitive areas, such as forests alongrivers and streams,
caragana bush stands etc.
Along irrigation channels fast growing trees, such as poplars, and fruit producing
trees, such as different kinds of apple trees, which are well adapted to the local
climatic conditions, should be planted as wind breaks in order to reduce deflation
of fertile top soils and to provide shadow in order to positively influence the
micro-climate and reduce evapotranspiration from soils and water surfaces. Further
more fruit bearing bushes, such as sea buckthorn should be cultivated in order to
be able to generate an additional income from fruit marketing.
The people who operate Janjin Boolt headwork have to take care that fish
movements in Buyant gol are not hindered.
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