A Qatari food processing company will be importing cows from Germany and Australia by mid-2018 as part of plans to build a farm in Qatar with the aim of supplying 45 per cent of the local market’s dairy  needs, said an official.

The farm will be built on a 500,000-sq-m area equipped with the “highest technology” for milk production, Mohamed Ali Al-Kuwari, business development manager, Gulf Food Production, was quoted as saying in a Gulf Times report.

Al-Kuwari added that they have already started this project and hope to finish it in the middle of next year.