Mongolia case study 2: Haymaking from natural pasture in Arkhangai, Mongolia
Stock raising in Mongolia relies on natural pasture. The thermal growing season is around one hundred days. Conservation of natural herbage for winter and spring supplementation is highly desirable. Since the privatization of the livestock sector in the early 1990s, collective systems of haymaking have collapsed and small-scale haymaking has yet to replace them. Herders have little experience of haymaking. Trials and demonstrations carried out from 1996 to 1998 at Ikh Tamir in Arkhangai Aimag are described. Spreading of animal manure and irrigating by forming ice-sheets with spring water over potential hay land were used as possible ways of increasing yields. Drought prevailed throughout the period, limiting the availability of water to form ice, as well as restricting growth of rainfed herbage. Nevertheless, all treatments had a positive effect on hay production. Mineral fertilizer had the greatest effect, but is unlikely to be economically interesting. Simple haymaking techniques, using animal-drawn equipment, were satisfactory, and the demonstration effect of the work has encouraged herders to increase haymaking on their own initiative.
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Rome (Italy) FAO
2003
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| Subjects: | PASTURES, STORAGE, HAYMAKING, STACKING, HAY, Case studies, Grazing systems, PATURAGES, STOCKAGE, FENAISON, EMPILAGE, FOIN, ETUDE DE CAS, SYSTEME DE PATURAGE, PASTIZALES, ALMACENAMIENTO, HENIFICACION, APILADO, HENO, ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PRACTICOS, SISTEMAS DE PASTOREO, |
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| Summary: | Stock raising in Mongolia relies on natural pasture. The thermal growing season is around one hundred days. Conservation of natural herbage for winter and spring supplementation is highly desirable. Since the privatization of the livestock sector in the early 1990s, collective systems of haymaking have collapsed and small-scale haymaking has yet to replace them. Herders have little experience of haymaking. Trials and demonstrations carried out from 1996 to 1998 at Ikh Tamir in Arkhangai Aimag are described.
Spreading of animal manure and irrigating by forming ice-sheets with spring water over potential hay land were used as possible ways of increasing yields. Drought prevailed throughout the period, limiting the availability of water to form ice, as well as restricting growth of rainfed herbage. Nevertheless, all treatments had a positive effect on hay production. Mineral fertilizer had the greatest effect, but is unlikely to be economically interesting. Simple haymaking techniques, using animal-drawn equipment, were satisfactory, and the demonstration effect of the work has encouraged herders to increase haymaking on their own initiative.
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