Cropland use and soil erosion of Mongolia

In the last 60 years of intensive agriculture development of Mongolia total 1.7 mln hectare land was used under crop production. In 2015 total 1035 thousand hectare land was officially registered as agriculture land, from them cultivated area is about 863.2 thousand hectare and rest of 171.8 thousand hectare field was abandoned. Due of agriculture technology specific and intensive use of soil fertility, agriculture area soil erosion is increasing continuously.