Inner Mongolia what a surprise, this place was extremely modern and very comfortable, here farming was on a larger scale as well, with a look at large scale potato production, wheat, naked oats, dairy and cashmere.
The high light for me was the dairy industry which china has only 3 main dairy companies of a scale I had never imagined. We looked at the smallest of 15 farms under this one dairy which had 11,000 cows, other dairies they owned were up to 30,000 cows. In total they were currently under production with 156,000 cows with plans to take that to 260,000 cows this accounted for about 70% of the milk that went through the processing facility which is in the photo's below.
Another highlight was the meeting with a cashmere producer and processor he had just been given the go ahead to set up a 1000km2 irrigated Lucerne farm in western Mongolia to farm goats and camels for cashmere production.
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