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How Does The Richest Nation Solve A Milk Shortage? By Airlifting 4,000 Cows

A businessman will charter some 60 Qatar Airlines flights for the bovines. He aims to jumpstart a dairy industry in Qatar, which risks food shortages amidst a blockade from its Gulf Arab neighbors.
Customers shop at the Al Meera market in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday. Qatar faces possible food and dairy shortages after its Gulf Arab neighbors cut ties with the wealthy nation. / STRINGER / Getty Images

How do you start a dairy industry overnight in a wealthy desert nation with its transport links blockaded? You buy 4,000 cows from Australia and the U.S. and put them on airplanes.

That's what Qatari businessman Moutaz Al Khayyat he's doing. The airlift will require as many as 60 flights on Qatar Airways, but as Al Khayyat told the

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