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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21795352" data-attributes="member: 218596">Enterprising Qatari businessman flying in 4000  cows in boost to local fresh milk production after blockade                                 <img src="https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/uploads/2017/06/12/post_main_cover_fit//f05a4a2a8abbaaf33965f18b8302e4f2c926f0fb.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The showdown between Qatar and its neighbors has disrupted trade,  split families and threatened to alter long-standing geopolitical  alliances. It’s also prompted one Qatari businessman to fly 4,000 cows  to the Gulf desert in an act of resistance and opportunity to fill the  void left by a collapse in the supply of fresh milk.It will take as many as 60 flights for Qatar Airways to deliver the  590-kilogram beasts that Moutaz Al Khayyat, chairman of Power  International Holding, bought in Australia and the U.S. “This is the  time to work for Qatar,” he said.The isolation that started on June 5 has forced the world’s richest  country by capita to open new trade routes to import food, building  materials and equipment for its natural gas industry. The central bank  said domestic and international transactions were running normally.Turkish dairy goods have been flown in, and Iranian fruit and  vegetables are on the way. There’s also a campaign to buy home-grown  produce. Signs with colors of the Qatari flag have been placed next to  dairy products in stores. One sign dangling from the ceiling said:  “Together for the support of local products.”“It’s a message of defiance, that we don’t need others,” said Umm  Issa, 40, a government employee perusing the shelves of a supermarket  before taking a carton of Turkish milk to try. “Our government has made  sure we have no shortages and we are grateful for that. We have no fear.  No one will die of hunger.”What Crisis?Most of the fresh milk and dairy products for Doha’s more than 1  million population came from Saudi Arabia up until a week ago. That milk  is getting scarce after the kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and two  allies cut transport links with a country that spends $500 million a  week to prepare stadiums and a metro before the soccer World Cup in  2022.Al Khayyat, whose main business is a construction firm that built  Qatar’s biggest mall, had been expanding the company's agricultural  business at a farm 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Doha. Food security  is part of Qatar’s government strategy to steer the economy away from  petrodollars, known, like in Saudi Arabia, as “Vision 2030.”On a site covering the equivalent of almost 70 soccer fields, new  grey sheds line two strips of verdant grass in the desert with a road  running through the middle up to a small mosque. It produces sheep milk  and meat and there were already plans to import the cows by sea. Then  Qatar was ostracized, so the project was expedited.Fresh milk production will now start by the end of the month rather  than September and will eventually cover a third of Qatar’s demand by  mid-July, Al Khayyat said at his office in Doha. Facilities for the  Holstein cows are ready, though the company will take a hit on the  shipping cost for the animals, which increased more than five times to  $8 million.“No one in his daily life feels a crisis,” Al Khayyat said. “The government is working very hard to ensure there’s no effect.”</blockquote>

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