Three calves were born in the Ningxia region. The first of the cloned animals was born on Friday, December 30th.
Chinese scientists at the Northwestern University of Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology have successfully cloned three that can produce unusually large amounts of milk. This was reported by CNN.
They were cloned from Holstein cows from the Netherlands. Selected animals are capable of producing 18 tons of milk per year or 100 tons of milk in their lifetime.
That’s about 1.7 times the amount of milk the average US cow produced in 2021, according to the USDA.
The first calf was born on December 30 by caesarean section due to its relatively large size of 56.7 kilograms.
In total, the scientists created 120 cloned embryos from the ear cells of high producing cows and placed them in surrogate cows.
Only five out of 10,000 cows in China can produce 100 tons of milk in their lifetime.
It is noted that China buys about 70% of its cattle from other countries. So, experts intend to raise a herd of more than a thousand “supercores” to stop the export.
“We plan to spend 2-3 years to build a herd of more than 1,000 supercows, which will be a solid foundation for solving China’s dependence on foreign dairy cows and to eliminate the risks of supply chain disruption ,” said Jin Yaping, lead author of the project.
It was previously reported that the specialists of the biotechnology company Colossal intend to revive the population of woolly mammoths, which disappeared about 10,000 years ago, in 2027.
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