Agricultural Cooperation between Turkey and Mongolia

The first step to be taken in the agricultural cooperation between Turkey and Mongoliawas carried out. In this regard, an agricultural expert (agronomists) employed at TİKA went to Mongolia in order to review Mongolia’s current agricultural potential and exploring the cooperation possibilities in the field as well as to identify priority activity areas and carried out country studies and project works.

The Turkish delegation comprised of TİKA Mongolia Coordinator Erol Çetin, coordinator assistant and the assigned expert met with the First Deputy Minister of the Mongolian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry, Janimkhan Saule. Since this step was taken upon the request of the Mongolian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry and the Mongolian StateAgricultural University. The meeting allowed for exchange of views on the short term training of the Mongolian experts inTurkey and especially on the possibility of the projects to be carried out in the field of garden plant.
The delegation then met with the Dean of the Faculty and the teaching staff of Agrobiology which depends on the Mongolian State Agricultural University and discussed earning a heated greenhouse for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to make their research and experimental works. The feasibility studies of the project were also done.

The delegation also had a talk on the general state of agriculture and livestock sector which is a priority sector in scope of the “2021 Development Strategy” and the problems of the sector and its importance for the Turkish investors as well as got data for the possible projects to be carried out in the future.
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