“Hot Spring Water’s Efficiency Association” NGO based in Arkhangai province, established in 2002. It is based on hot spring, that locates in Arkhangai province, Tsenkher soum. There are a green houses, which were built in 1977 by “Road to Socialism” unity, based on this hot spring. The transition process to market economy threw the green houses into difficulty. After establishment of the “Hot spring water’s efficiency Association” NGO, small scaled plantation has began. Tomatoes, cucumbers, paprikas were the main products.
The area is really right place for trading products, it is 27 km far in the south from the center of Arkhangai province. Because the population of Arkhangai province is 93.000. And it locates in the center of Mongolia. It is located in steppe and forest zone of the country. And the soil of the ground is rich with substances, good for plantation.
Territory of Tsenkher soum is estimated to 32.304 hector, there are 1.545 households in the soum, and its population is 5.387. Only 5 hector of their owned land is used for producing potatoes, 2-3 hector of the owned land is used for growing other kinds of vegetables. Approximately 30-38 tons vegetables is produced annually for consuming of the population. But the total required consuming of vegetables must be 80-100 tons of potatoes and 60-70 tons of other kinds of vegetables by the population of the soum.
High priority of the NGO is the reconstruction of the green house in Tsenkher soum, provision the local people consuming with healthy green food as vegetables, building new jobs and workplaces for certain numbers of population, contributing to the economy and prosperity of Arkhangai province.
- Reconstructing the green house in “Khaluun US” Tsenkher soum, local people will be able to learn how to plant and grow vegetables and green food in a green house and new jobs might be provided eventually, and living cost will be reduced and their life will be improved, who participate in the project.
- The project is designed to motivate love to the nature and environment for the local people, who take part in the project and whose life is changed into good. Even though, the project will be a good experience for exploitation of the spring water and its protection, also it can be the prevention of water pollution and water shortage.
-In the future it will be annual job, increasing the producing of vegetables and constant workplaces will be developed.
-The location of green house is passed the requirements by the small project development and convenient place to accomplish and conduct the project.
- Protection the origins of the spring and reconstruction of green house near it is not for only local people and households, who live around the spring and good for population of the soum and bags. Any donations will be spent for prosperity of the soum and making right condition for proper usage of the spring.
-There are 35 hot springs, involved areas of 4 provinces in the Khangai Mountain Ranges of Mongolia. Current project could be developed and used in protection and proper usage of any other similar hot springs and it can be a good example.

Estimation of Economy and Living Condition of Local People

- Number of poor and unemployed people is in high in Tsenker soum. People are very poor, who live in households, those are involved to 60% of very poor households, because of unemployment. The soum is centered and crowded with people no jobs.
- Most of young people, who are unemployed have being destroyed forest and trees, producing fire food recently. So, such people can be seized in the project and improve and contribute their lives by the result of own labor.
- Local people of “Altan Ovoo” bag and population of the soum could be the ones, who deserve the fertility and effects of the project. Previous green house was destroyed by privatization.. Who live around the spring became poorer and employment has decreased. The people say that, they are very happy with the project, ready to welcome and participate in the project, and supporting all the activities to protect origins of hot spring and reconstruct the green house in the hot spring.

Environmental Issues and Project Goals

Chemical research was done in soil and its substances and minerals. The fertility content is estimated between 4.9-7.3% generally. That’s why the place is right environmental area to operate green house work. But there is some work, which can’t be accomplished completely, because of money resource and investment, even the “Association Hot Spring Water’s Efficiency Association” NGO is doing certain things in the frame of the project.
NGO’s Action points:
- To reconstruct a green house, produce vegetables, conduct training course for locals, build new workplaces and operate a green house in a whole year.
- To provide with qualified healthy fresh vegetables for consumers- locals and visitors to camps, even though provide green food consuming of all the population of the province.
- To plant bushes and plants, which makes the soil wet, as well as bushes of blackcurrant and buckthorn.
- To accomplish jobs for protection of the Tsenkher hot spring, cooperating with the administration of the soum, nominate nature guards, prohibit and stop forest destroying and limber making, decreasing water pollution of the spring and regulate the normal origin of the spring. So that:
- Blocking barriers will be built, agitating boards and ads will be placed, cleaning the area, near the spring and remove trashes and disposals around the spring.
- Two of the water dams on the spring origin will be reconstructed, recover hygiene area and place signs in there, and road to the cold spring will be built and barriers will be built for protection the cold spring.
- Advertising a Mongolian natural hot spring and its advantages local and international arena and let know the usage and effect of the spring for domestic and foreign tourists.

Basics of the Action and Action Result

- There is a remain of a green house, where vegetables and grapes were planted and consumed for food and the remain can be a good fundament and experience as well as materially.
-Water temperature of the hot spring is 77C-85.5C. So, it could be used for heating the green house.
- The soil is high fertility – ground and rich with substances and minerals to plant vegetables. Watering is possible, using water of cold spring in there.
- Market for trading products is available in tourist camps, soum-center and provincial area.
- Fresh healthy products, qualified by the standard will be able produced in whole period of year.
- To Develop this project “Fertility of Hot Spring” Association cooperate with the experienced & skilled people, who had worked in the previous green house.
- The Certificate of the Right to Own Land was issued to the Asociation “ Fertility of Hot Spring”. So, usage the area and land of the green house is permitted.
- The project has been agreed and supported by administration of the soum and its population.
- Constant jobs and workplaces will be built, number of poor people will be decreased, objective conditions will be completed for conducting training courses.
- Tsnkher hot spring is located in the central zone of tourism and 120 km far from Kharkhorum, which could be the future capital city of Mongolia, the territory is counted as well as strategic in infrastructure.
- If the beginning of the project to reconstruct the green house is developed in right direction, it could be a good contribution and development of industries with no harms for the environment.