Туслах малчны нийгмийн дүр төрх: түүхэн ба нөхцөл байдлын зураглал

Social profile of assistant herders

Abstract

In resent years, the concept of assistant herders has been widely used, and the National Statistics Committee has officially released related statistics. As of 2017, it has been reported that 4.5 percent of all herders are assistant herders. However, the method of determining the number of workers called assistant herders is still not well established. For this reason, the answer to the question of who is called an assistant herdsman has not been finalized even in the research and analysis, starting from the statistical registration organization that receives the information. Therefore, it should be noted that the official and unofficial estimates about this may be quite different from the reality. At the same time, it is common for people belonging to this group to be unstable.

Actually, the concept of “assistant herdsman” is not entirely new, and existed in forms of animal husbandry labor organization that existed before the privatization of livestock.  

In the framework of this article, we have tried to briefly clarify the appearance of this old phenomenon in a new context.