ULAN BATOR, Apr 15 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) – Mongolia is expected to prepare around 9,700 tonnes of cashmere this year, the country’s food and agriculture ministry said today.
Mongolia, one of the last nomadic countries in the world, exports 60 to 70 percent of its total cashmere prepared per year, after primary processing and washing, the ministry said in a statement.
The country’s livestock number totalled 67.1 million by the end of 2020, and over 41 percent of them were goats, according to the National Statistics Office.
The Asian country, with a population of 3.3 million, has more than 230,000 herder households. Cashmere is one of the main sources of income for Mongolian herders.– NNN-MONGOLIAWEB
