Qatar’s First Shipment of Air-Lifted Cows Lands in Doha
- A total of 4,000 animals are expected to arrive within a month
- The imports are response to effort in Gulf to isolate country
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The first batch of an anticipated 4,000 dairy cows was flown into Qatar Tuesday, five weeks after the start of a Saudi Arabia-led boycott of the Gulf country.
A shipment of 165 cows, sourced from Germany and flying 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.