Speaker in Ovorkhangai

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Last Friday, the Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold and accompanied him officials got au fait with a farm of “Alpine” goat in Arvaikheer soum, Ovorkhangai aimag, within his local tour. This farm brought these 202 heads of “Alpine” goats from France in last year’s June for testing to breed them in Mongolia. As of today, 80% of the animals have been inseminated, the farm’s owner J.Davaasuren said. The “Alpine” goats are fed on pasture lands in summer and autumn, whereas they are kept in warm places in winter and spring times. They need special care, and give 3-5 liters of milk, an expert of the Animal Husbandry and Scientific Institute B.Beisin emphasized. At an initiative of the Speaker, an innovation project on improving animal breeds and genetics has launched in Ovorkhangai aimag’s 19 soums. In frames of the project, animals of some selected breeds have been brought. The same day, the Speaker legged a cattle farm owned by the “Arvaimilk” company in Ovorkhangai. By the livestock census of end of 2013, Ovorkhangai aimag counted 3 million and 486 thousand heads of livestock in 17 thousand and 595 families, of which 1541.3 thousand sheep, 1574.1 thousand goats, 144.9 thousand cows and 19.7 thousand camels.