Mongolia bets on cashmere industry development to diversify mining-heavy economy

Mongolia bets on cashmere industry development to diversify mining-heavy economy
A herd of cashmere goats in Inner Mongolia.
By bne IntelliNews February 9, 2018

The Mongolian government has approved a four-year programme to boost the country’s cashmere industry in an effort to diversify Mongolia’s mining-dependent economy, Xinhua news agency reported on February 8.

Mongolia is the world's second-largest producer of raw and washed cashmere as the country’s goat population amounts to 27mn and its annual cashmere production capacity stands at 9,400 tonnes. Approximately 90% of the country’s cashmere is exported while the rest is processed into final products. As such, Mongolia is missing out on its potential to annually export 19.8mn pieces of knitted and textile products, which would amount to earnings worth $1.78bn in the event that Mongolia started fully processing all of its cashmere at home.

The programme will be implemented in two stages and will help create over 3,600 new jobs, while supporting 5,500 existing jobs in the cashmere industry.

The initiative will receive funding from state and local budgets along with foreign loans and aid. The authorities expect it to increase Mongolia's production of processed cashmere products by nearly sixfold.

Read in IntelliNews Pro
Get IntelliNews Pro

Related Articles

WHO survey: Mongolia biggest user of antibiotics, high usage rates in Turkey and Iran

Use of Antibiotics in Mongolia, Turkey and Iran is running at extraordinarily high rates, with Mongolians using the medicines most of all among nationalities surveyed, according to ... more

Mongolia’s president threatens hunger strike to force disbanding of parliament

Mongolia’s President Khaltmaa Battulga has threatened to go on a hunger strike or stage a sit-in to pressure parliament to voluntarily disband for failing to stand up to the country's economic ... more

Fitch says Mongolian banks remain weak

Fitch Ratings has determined that Mongolia’s banking system remained weak with a high reported ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) of 8.2% at end-May. The ratings agency thus moved on July 13 to ... more

Most Read

  1. Mike Calvey, founder of top Russian private equity fund Barings Vostok and Russia’s most famous fund manager, arrested on fraud charges
    6 days ago
  2. Syria’s Assad lashes out at Erdogan, calling him “a small US pawn”
    2 days ago
  3. MOSCOW BLOG: Is the arrest of US fund manager Michael Calvey a litmus test for Russia?
    5 days ago
  4. Macedonian opposition party nominates law professor as presidential candidate
    4 days ago
  5. Russia’s Gazprom mulling a second Turk Stream pipeline
    6 days ago
  1. Mike Calvey, founder of top Russian private equity fund Barings Vostok and Russia’s most famous fund manager, arrested on fraud charges
    6 days ago
  2. OUTLOOK 2019 Turkey
    1 month ago
  3. Syria’s Assad lashes out at Erdogan, calling him “a small US pawn”
    2 days ago
  4. Putin's May Decrees and the 12 "national projects" take shape, but lacunae remain
    28 days ago
  5. Bosnia rocked by new crisis over proposal to rename Republika Srpska
    28 days ago

Selected articles from our premium news/views wire IntelliNews Pro

Login to IntelliNews Pro
Get IntelliNews Pro

Reports

Dismiss