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 183.3 15.5 5 5.7 0.28 7 8 30 9
amount (t)
Revenues 27.5 2.33 2 1.14 0.11 1.05 1.2 5.25 1.8
(Million
MNT)
*for which most farmers sold their crops
Source: Survey results, June
2006
Table 28: Crop Prices paid to Surveyed Households and Revenues from Marketing, Myangad sum
(2005/06)
Thus calculated, on average each household had approximately 7million MNTrevenues from
crop marketing. The average expenses for inputs, services and labor force were reported to be
360,000 MNT per household. 24 Thus an average household’s income from crop farming is
approximately 6.7 million MNT.
Besides crop farming, the
Amount
475
500
surveyed households are
400
also engaged in animal
300
husbandry. Fig. 64 shows
200
the composition of
100 51
31 41
households’ livestock
0
0
herds. On average a
Sheep
Goats
Cattle/Yaks
Horses
Other
Source: Survey results, June 2006
Figure 64: Livestock of Surveyed Households, Myangad sum 2006
household owned 87 small
livestock and 12 cattle and
horses. The herds are
dominated by goats which
comprise 79% of all
livestock. None had camels nor chickens or pigs. Sheep are kept for food supply, whereas
goats are kept mainly for income generation. In spring, income from cashmere covers cost of
inputs spent for cultivation. Total average revenues from marketing of livestock products,
mainly cashmere, was 830,000MNTper household.
24 The reported expenses seem to be to low, indicating that not all expenses could be measured.
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