Dairy farm in a desert!


In the wake of the June 2017 suspension of diplomatic ties of several Gulf countries with Qatar, Baladna, with state support, expanded rapidly into producing cow’s milk, which had been supplied to Qatar primarily by Saudi Arabia.
When the blockade was announced, Qatar was able to get milking machines delivered quickly by paying an Irish company that was also seeking to buy the equipment to step aside for a rush order.
Then it airlifted cows from Europe using Russian cargo planes. Large numbers of those cows died of heat stress, but that was before the barns and cooling systems were completely constructed. The farm also has a 17-person veterinary team and hospital.
Since then, cows have been imported from the United States and Canada. And 30 to 50 cows are being born here every day.
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Now, this is something new for me to learn. Have things become normal again?
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Yes n no! They have learnt to survive without the support of their neighbouring countries as the ban still continues…
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Oh! Thanks for the information.
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Cows in the desert? I always thought Arabs don’t really like dairy.
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They do consume a lot of dairy products! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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Very interesting. I’ve never thought about cows in the desert before.
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I love the image and the trivia that you shared. It is unfortunate how those cows died of heatstroke.
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