Action Program of the Government of Mongolia for 2016-2020

The Action Program is a national multi-sectoral program of Mongolia for the period of 2016-2020. Its main objective is to revitalize the economy within a short period of time, promote growth, support social sectors and drastically improve the well-being of its citizens.
In the area of food security, the Program aims to ensure the supply of healthy and safe food products to the population to stabilize the food provision and reduce seasonal dependence of strategic food stock; increase the competitiveness of the food production and create the opportunity to export value added products; create legal environment for organic and functional food and support their production through financial investment and tax policy; support creation of small and medium-size food processing pilot factories equipped with advanced technology that meets the needs of aimag, city, soum and other settled areas; establish an integrated registration and electronic information system for food safety; create conditions that allow citizen to consume healthy and safe food and improve food safety through the establishment of food preparation, processing, storage, transportation, and sale system; and increase the variety of domestic food production and implement sub programs such as poultry and pig farming, beekeeping and fisheries to increase supply of products and their availability.
In the area of environment, the Program targets to preserve and leave to the next generation the virgin nature and ecosystem balance, protect natural resources, prevent their depletion, ensure their appropriate use and possibility of rehabilitation and promote environment-friendly inclusive economic growth as the basis of sustainable social development. More specifically, it provides for implementing green growth policies designed to introduce advanced and effective technology friendly approaches to environment and human health, to save resources and ensure their reuse and recycle; and putting under state special protection no less than 50 percent of areas with virgin nature, clean water reserves and sources of major rivers and streams.
For agricultural development, the document aims to increase the productivity of livestock farming, improve its economic turnover, introduce advanced technology and innovation; improve the cropland usage and determine regions suitable for agriculture and intensified animal husbandry and ensure 100% self-sufficiency in crops, potatoes and other key vegetables and 50% supply of planted fodder by domestic production; create favorable taxation, legal and business environment for priority export-oriented sectors to substitute imports as well as for small and medium-size enterprises, cooperatives, trade and services and increase the share of the value-added products in the GDP; create a commodity price regulatory legal framework for agricultural goods and products; implement flexible long-term investment and financial/loan policy for light industry, small and medium-size enterprises and cooperatives; develop capacity-building, training and re-training system for light industry and small and medium enterprises; and increase the variety and volume of raw materials and goods traded at Agricultural Commodity Exchange and upgrade its operations.
For disaster management, the Program aims to improve the legal environment and management of disaster prevention, carry out disaster prevention, disaster risk reduction and early warning activities on a scientific basis; broaden public participation; and enhance the disaster management capacity.