Despite cold weather in recent days, an official from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry who is touring the countryside with Speaker D.Demberel tells the newspaper Uls Turiin Toim that winter is normal in the aimags, and herders have faced few challenges so far.

Although snow is covering pastureland, herders prepared sufficient stocks of hay in the autumn. According to the State Emergency Office and the Government, there has been no dzud, or dangerously heavy snow, in the country. The State Emergency Office is going to send reserved hay to Uvs, Bayan-Ulgii, and Khovd aimags, where herders could face shortages.

The official said that some soums of Arkhangai and Bayankhongor aimags had temperatures as low as -40 C (-40 F), but herders there have declined any assistance from the state. About 72 families with 46,000 animals are in winter migration for better places.