FINAL REPORT

season, frequent violent conflicts between farmers in the Buyant River Delta appear.
Furthermore, conflicts between crop farmers and herders, who use the water to irrigate
hayfields or need water for livestock, areincreasing as well.
In addition there are many impoverished households in the four sums who would like to take
up irrigated farming, if they gain access to land and water and in Buyant sum a Chinese
investor has signed a contract to cultivate up to 500 ha for cereal cultivation. Thus, water
scarcity and conflicts are expected to rise, if no measures to use, store and distribute water
resources efficiently are implemented and fair access to land and water is guaranteed.
As the scientific results of the research on irrigation agriculture in the Buyant river delta
support a rehabilitation of Janjin Boolt headwork the aimag administration has already started
to rebuild Janjin Boolt headwork with money received from the state budget in Ulaanbaatar.
It is expected that the storage of irrigation water and its four distribution to Khovd and Buyant
sum can already start in spring2007 (see Photo 9).
D. Assessment of the Physical and Ecological Environment at the Buyant
River Delta in Jargalant, Khovd, Buyant and Myangad sums / Khovd
aimag (M. Walther, Ts. Gegeensuvd and B. Altangerel; S. Bayarkhuu,
D. Battsetseg, and B. Tsevelmaa)
10. Physical and Ecological Conditions for Irrigated Agriculture –An Overview-
General Remarks
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