China uses the most advanced biotechnology to turn "cattle" into "milk cow"

China, the big agricultural country, is using the most advanced biotechnologies in the world and plans to use more than 20 million heads of water buffaloes that are used as “cattle” in the country to mass-produce them into “milk cows”.
The Guangxi Buffalo Research Base known as “Buffalo Valley” has announced that Chinese scientists have mastered the most advanced buffalo population rapid expansion technology in the world, “Embryo Transplantation Technology”. They have used this technology for the first time successfully obtaining batches. Test tube milk buffalo.
According to scientists, this will change the situation of Chinese buffaloes that have been used only for cattle for thousands of years, making it possible to both farm and produce milk. This not only provides farmers with new means of income increase, but also provides Chinese people with more nutritious food. Milk products.
The scientists developed a batch of high quality milk buffalo oocytes in vitro to embryos and transplanted them to 20 female buffalos, producing 8 test buffaloes, indicating that the Chinese buffalo breeding technology has reached the world advanced level.
“Traditional hybrids require at least nine years to produce a purebred, high-quality milk buffalo; now the embryos are transplanted to the mother buffalo, and a high-quality milk buffalo is born. After mass production of embryos, rapid expansion of high-quality populations can be achieved. Scientist Jiang Hesheng said, "In just a few years, all buffalo in China can be improved into milk buffaloes that can make huge profits."
After identification, the nutritional value of cow milk produced by test-tube milk buffalo is 1.8 times higher than that of yellow milk, and the taste is good. “And because there is no genetic problem in embryo technology, there is no problem in safety.” Jiang Hesheng said.
The number of Chinese buffalo herds is now the third largest in the world. However, local buffaloes do not produce milk. A cow consumes up to 80 days per year, which wastes grassland resources and has no economic benefits. Buffalo milk, however, is the best variety in dairy products, and its nutritional value is higher than the yellow milk that Chinese people usually drink.
Indian Mora buffalo and Pakistani Nuri-Raffi buffalo are the best milk buffalo in the world. China introduced 55 Mora buffaloes and 50 Niri-Rafi buffaloes respectively over 40 years ago. For decades, scientists have used traditional methods of hybridization to obtain a new breed of cattle that are suitable for local growth. However, the rate of variety improvement is slow, and the quality population of milk buffalo cannot be expanded rapidly.
At present, the Agricultural College of Guangxi University, which has cultivated the first tube buffalo in China, is working hard for the birth of China's first cloned milk buffalo; at the same time, a project of a Chinese bio-engineering company investing 100 million yuan to develop water-milk is also recently in Guangxi. Start up for higher efficiency.
Chinese buffaloes are mainly distributed in the south. More than 60 cities and counties in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces have established milk buffalo development bases. Among them, Guangxi, with the largest number of buffaloes in China, plans to use 10 years to promote the milk buffalo population, so that the value of aquatic milk will reach 12 billion yuan, and farmers will directly benefit 6 billion yuan.
According to statistics, China's per capita consumption of milk is currently only 6 kilograms, far below the global average of 100 kilograms, and the dairy market is huge. Watermilk is becoming a new breed that is widely welcomed by consumers in some cities in the south.
“The natural conditions in the rural areas in the South are very suitable for raising milk buffaloes. There is little investment in breeding and the benefits are great. The new industry of buffalo milk will achieve great development,” said economist Li Yuchun.