Delta Holding LLC, a diversified Mongolian company with subsidiaries in agribusiness as well as other sectors, recently built a state-of-the-art storage facility in the vast plains just outside the capital, Ulanbaatar. One of the first of its kind in the country, the warehouse has a capacity of 2,200 tons with 11 cold storage rooms – six for vegetables and five for processed meat. Now that the freezer-chilled rooms are ready, and with constant monitoring from a team of on-the-ground staff, Delta aims to buy vegetables such as cabbages, potatoes and onions from farmers in September and October, store them for some six months, and then sell them in spring. Mongolia has a few good facilities that can store such foodstuffs for long periods of time, so once the autumn harvest season is over, these vegetables need to be imported to meet local demand. By contrast, having a good storage facility will encourage farmers to cultivate more crops... —blogs.adb.org/blog