A Qatari businessman is to fly 4,000 cows to Qatar to fill the gap left after several other Gulf states cut economic and diplomatic ties with the country.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have all cut ties with Qatar accusing it of supporting Islamist militants.
In effect, these countries have stopped exporting food and other goods to Qatar. This has serious consequences for Qatar – it was importing 80% of its food from its Gulf neighbours before the ties were cut.
Fresh milk
This has in turn caused supplies of fresh milk to drop, leading to Qatari businessman Moutaz Al Khayyat, chairman of Power International Holding, to fly 4,000 cows into the country.
Bloomberg reports that it will take as many as 60 flights to deliver the cows, which weigh in the region of 590kg.
It reports that the cows were bought in Australia and the US and Al Khayyat is understood to have said that “this is the time to work for Qatar”.
Qatar was importing the majority of its fresh milk, and other dairy products, from Saudi Arabia prior to the blockade.
Expansion
Al Khayyat, has been expanding his company’s agricultural business at a farm north of Doha.
New sheds and facilities have been built, with sheep milk and meat being produced. Plans were afoot to bring in cows for milk production but this process has now been sped up with the country facing a shortage of fresh milk.
Watch: milking 22,500 cows in the Saudi Arabian desert
Eight of the world’s biggest farms
A Qatari businessman is to fly 4,000 cows to Qatar to fill the gap left after several other Gulf states cut economic and diplomatic ties with the country.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have all cut ties with Qatar accusing it of supporting Islamist militants.
In effect, these countries have stopped exporting food and other goods to Qatar. This has serious consequences for Qatar – it was importing 80% of its food from its Gulf neighbours before the ties were cut.
Fresh milk
This has in turn caused supplies of fresh milk to drop, leading to Qatari businessman Moutaz Al Khayyat, chairman of Power International Holding, to fly 4,000 cows into the country.
Bloomberg reports that it will take as many as 60 flights to deliver the cows, which weigh in the region of 590kg.
It reports that the cows were bought in Australia and the US and Al Khayyat is understood to have said that “this is the time to work for Qatar”.
Qatar was importing the majority of its fresh milk, and other dairy products, from Saudi Arabia prior to the blockade.
Expansion
Al Khayyat, has been expanding his company’s agricultural business at a farm north of Doha.
New sheds and facilities have been built, with sheep milk and meat being produced. Plans were afoot to bring in cows for milk production but this process has now been sped up with the country facing a shortage of fresh milk.
Watch: milking 22,500 cows in the Saudi Arabian desert
Eight of the world’s biggest farms
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