Chinese media reported that the latitude and longitude coordinates mentioned in a recent joint announcement by the China General Administration of Customs and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs correspond to the buffalo epidemic-free ranch of Royal Group in Punjab, Pakistan.
This ranch is the first of its kind in Pakistan and the world’s only one capable of exporting high-yield buffalo embryos to China.
Royal Group’s “Buffalo Breeding Project,” one of the earliest agricultural ventures initiated under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, has shown significant progress.
Importing buffalo embryos into China will greatly reduce the time needed to improve dairy buffalo breeds, from 12 years to just three. Moreover, it can boost the milk production of a single buffalo by more than threefold.
Royal Group has also established an in vitro embryo production factory and pastures in Pakistan. They’ve trained local researchers and farm managers and provided high-quality milk buffalo germplasm resources, helping maintain the local super buffalo resource.
In 2021, Royal Group established Royal Cell Biotechnology (Pakistan) and launched the “Milk Buffalo Provenance Chip” strategy. The following year, they inaugurated the Royal Cell in vitro embryo production plant.
Now, local technicians in Pakistan can produce hundreds of high-quality buffalo embryos weekly. These embryos will breed high-yielding milk buffalo herds and significantly increase buffalo milk production in China.
Currently, Royal Group is intensively constructing a 10,000-head buffalo breeding ranch. The first phase of the project is slated for completion by June 2024, providing 3,000 recipient cattle for carrying out embryo transplantation of high-yield buffaloes from Pakistan. This initiative aims to rapidly breed the first batch of high-yield breeding herds in China.