Vaccine factory to be renovated to combat animal disease

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Light Industry B.Batzorig met with Adam Szucs, a department head at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Ambassador of Hungary Mihaly Galosfai on July 31 to discuss ongoing agricultural cooperation between the two countries.

During their meeting, the sides discussed a project to renovate the Mongolian state-owned Biocombinat factory, which was re-established with economic and technical assistance from Hungary in 1973.

After the meeting, Szucs and Head of the ministry’s International Relations and Cooperation Department E. Jargalsaikhan signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the renovation of the vaccine factory with a soft loan of 25 million USD from the government of Hungary. The construction is scheduled to be carried out for nearly two years.

The new factory will have a capacity to produce 15 to 20 million doses of dried vaccination and 10 to 15 million doses of liquid vaccines, which will be tested at international accredited standard level.

After the factory opens, Mongolia will be able to produce vaccines for cattle plague, small pox and other animal infectious diseases.

Minister B. Batzorig noted that as Mongolia currently imports vaccines from Russia and third neighbor countries when animal infectious diseases spread, there is a crucial need to open a vaccine factory that produces vaccines meeting the international standards and supplies domestic demand for the country.”

The minister also added that two countries have a great potential to develop mutual cooperation in the areas of animal husbandry, light industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises.