GOVERNMENT TO ALLOCATE LEATHER SUBSIDY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Government is planning to give subsidy to herders starting from this March. Setting a goal to support the domestic leather production, the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture has decided to pay bonus money of 3,000 togrog for a hide/skin of one sheep or goat and 15,000 for that of cow or horse as a direct pecuniary aid to herders who supply with hides the domestic manufacturers. In order to receive the subsidy, a herder need to certify the sale and be a member of a herders' cooperative, says a specialist at the Light Industry Department of this Ministry D.Amarjargal. The subsidy will be given two times a year--in March and September--once a total amount needed is summed up and calculated at the Domestic Animal Protection Foundation.