Sino-Israeli Demonstration Dairy Farm EstablishedA demonstration dairy farm, a Sino-Israeli joint venture running 1,060 heads of dairy cow, began operating Friday.The farm, the second Sino-Israeli agricultural demonstration unit, will introduce advanced milking equipment and feeding methods from both Israel and China, said Israel's Minister of Agriculture, Shalom Simhon, at the inauguration ceremony. The dairy cows at the farm will be milked by computer monitored equipment rather than by dairymaids as is usual in many local dairy farms. Each cow is numbered so that its milk production can be automatically recorded, said Zhang Junchang, deputy director of the farm. The health of the cows is also monitored by computer and any infected by mastitis will be discovered promptly, he added. The dairy farm covers an area of 18 hectares and 620 of the 1060 cows are mature animals. An Israeli technician will be giving technical advice on the farm on behalf of the Center for International Cooperation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. The Chinese Government is making efforts to provide its people with higher quality dairy produce and new technologies are in great demand to improve the production, said Han Changfu, Chinese Vice Minister of Agriculture, at the ceremony. The first Sino-Israeli demonstration farm was developed in 1995 in a Beijing suburb where flowers, vegetables and fruit trees were planted with agro-technologies from Israel. |
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