Mongolia used to have been a country which supplied itself with wheat crop and even exported some before 1990s. The country had 1.2 million ha of rotational crop field that time. But when the country started shifting to a market economy, all the economic branches including agricultural ones had failed. Many fruitful agricultural lands were left abandoned as there were no means to support crops.
This grant project is given a local NGO to restore some abandoned land by supporting community activities on cultivation of Buckthorn and Black currant, endemic fruit trees near Sumber village.
2 ha. area was fenced and over 1500 fruit seedlings were planted in there for the first year. One deep well was drilled to water seedlings. The survival rate was about 75 %. One greenhouse was set up to plant tree seeds and to grow seedlings. A group of 4 women and 2 men has been involved in the project.