The Chinese authorities want to clone a herd of super cows to secure milk independence

The Chinese authorities hired a team of scientists who managed to clone three high-yielding cows. Government propaganda claims that the success of the scientists is groundbreaking and will soon allow China to become independent of imports of purebred dairy cows from the West. Currently, as much as 70% of high-yielding cows are imported from abroad. The goal of the project is to build a herd of 1,000 "super cows" that will be able to produce 18 tons of milk a year or more than 100 tons of milk in their lifetime, the state-owned newspaper Global Times reported. Cost effective cloning Three cloned calves were born at a center in the Ningxia region. A team of scientists from the Northwest University of Agricultural and Forestry Technology is responsible for this success. Researchers grew 120 embryos from the ear cells of productive Holstein Friesian cows imported from the Netherlands and placed ...