ULAN BATOR, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia exported 16,100 tons of meat and meat products in 2022, the country's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry said Wednesday.
The majority of the exports were meats of horse, sheep and goat, it said in a statement.
Mongolia currently exports meat and meat products to 11 countries, including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Vietnam.
The Asian country resumed the export of live livestock in October 2022. By the end of last year, the country exported a total of 28,503 heads of live livestock, mainly sheep, according to the ministry.
According to its National Statistics Office, Mongolia, one of the last nomadic countries in the world, had 71.1 million livestock animals at the end of 2022.
Promoting livestock husbandry is one of the most viable solutions to diversify the landlocked country's mining-dependent economy. ■
