A shipment of 165 cows, sourced from Germany and flown via Budapest, are ready to produce milk immediately and the product should reach local markets this week, according to a spokesman for Power International Holding, which is importing the animals.
Other shipments will include cows from Australia and the US, and should arrive every three days, the company spokesman said Tuesday. In total, the bovine airlift is expected to bring in the 4,000 cows within about a month.
When all the cows purchased by Power International Chairman Moutaz al-Khayyat are flown in, his brand of milk will supply about 30 percent of the country’s needs, he said in an interview last month.
Cows being unloaded from a Qatar Airways cargo flight Tuesday night
The first batch of an anticipated 4,000 dairy cows was flown into Qatar on Tuesday, five weeks after the start of a Saudi Arabia-led boycott of the country.
