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Crop Production and Small-Scale Rural Processing

In: Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia

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  • Nadia Forni

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Crops have always had a marginal position in Mongolian rural production because of the country’s climatic and other natural conditions: the vegetation period is estimated at only 120–140 days per year in the south and 80-100 days in the north. The area classified as arable is estimated at 1.3 million ha, less than 1 per cent of the country’s total land area. Only 50 per cent of this, or 657 000 ha, was actually cultivated in 1992, since the sudden increased cost of inputs, or their unavailability, made production uneconomic. The downward trend has been steady since 1989, when cultivated area accounted for 853 600 ha. The irrigated area reached 57 300 ha at the peak of its expansion, most of it under highly-mechanized sprinkler systems in 156 registered schemes now undergoing accelerated decay; there was also a limited area of 13 900 ha in unregistered schemes using low-cost surface-irrigation methods.

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  • Nadia Forni, 1995. "Crop Production and Small-Scale Rural Processing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keith Griffin (ed.), Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia, chapter 8, pages 134-143, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23960-3_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23960-3_8
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