Mongolia exported the first shipment of 1000 tonnes of mutton to Iran last week. The meat exporting agreement to supply the meat was reached between ‘Eco Food Trading’ LLC and ‘Darkhan Meat Foods’ LLC. 

Mongolia has over 70 million livestock and is capable of exporting more than 160 thousand tons of meat annually. Currently, the landlocked Asian country, exports a total of 10 thousand tonnes of meat to Russia, China, Japan and Kazakhstan every year. Recently, Iran has requested to import a total of 4000 tonnes of red meat from Mongolia. This amount represents 250 sheep.