A special Government meeting has adopted a comprehensive plan on improving conditions in the animal husbandry sector hit by natural disaster, and also approved a 
temporary measure to provide animals to herders who are left with no livestock.
According to the latest compiled reports, the dzud has affected 80.9 percent of the territory of the country, covering 175 districts of 17 provinces. Some 57.3 percent of the total herder community or 97,500 households have been hit. Severe snow storms led to 17 people aged between 12 and 89 years freezing to death while pasturing their animals.
The total loss of animals is counted at 6.5 million, with the figure likely to rise. Of these 599,416 were big animals like horses, cattle and camels, while more than six million were sheep and goats, with the latter alone accounting for more than half the number. This is a direct loss of MNT360 billion at current market prices.
The dzud has left 8,711 herder families with no animals at all, and 32,756 families have lost more than 50 percent of their herd. Around 1,400 families have already moved to urban centers. About 69,600 herders had borrowed altogether MNT63.9 billion from commercial banks, of which MNT2.1 billion has been traced to those who have lost all or most of their animals.
The Government has so far spent MNT6.8 billion on helping herders, with international organizations, individuals and entities sending aid worth MNT3.5 billion. Foreign relief aid programs have spent MNT10.8 billion so far.
temporary measure to provide animals to herders who are left with no livestock. According to the latest compiled reports, the dzud has affected 80.9 percent of the territory of the country, covering 175 districts of 17 provinces. Some 57.3 percent of the total herder community or 97,500 households have been hit. Severe snow storms led to 17 people aged between 12 and 89 years freezing to death while pasturing their animals.
The total loss of animals is counted at 6.5 million, with the figure likely to rise. Of these 599,416 were big animals like horses, cattle and camels, while more than six million were sheep and goats, with the latter alone accounting for more than half the number. This is a direct loss of MNT360 billion at current market prices.
The dzud has left 8,711 herder families with no animals at all, and 32,756 families have lost more than 50 percent of their herd. Around 1,400 families have already moved to urban centers. About 69,600 herders had borrowed altogether MNT63.9 billion from commercial banks, of which MNT2.1 billion has been traced to those who have lost all or most of their animals.
The Government has so far spent MNT6.8 billion on helping herders, with international organizations, individuals and entities sending aid worth MNT3.5 billion. Foreign relief aid programs have spent MNT10.8 billion so far.
Source: Ardin Erkh, Montsame
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