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    Land of milk and money: Qatar looks to farms to beat the Gulf boycott

    Emirate’s drive for food security is symbolic of its determination to make efforts to isolate it ‘a blessing inside a calamity’
    by Patrick Wintour in Doha Oct 20, 2017 5 minutes
    A picture taken on July 12, 2017 shows a herd of cows, airlifted from Budapest, at the Baladna livestock production farm in the city of al-Khor, northeast of Qatar. A first herd of cows have been successfully airlifted to Qatar to boost milk supplies five weeks after the emirate was cut-off by neighbouring Gulf states, officials said. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER / Getty Images

    John Dore is off to Doha’s vast and luxurious Hamad International airport to greet the 8pm flight from Los Angeles via Liège, Belgium.

    Wearing a straw hat with a small metal shamrock badge in homage to his Irish roots, his imminent visitors are neither family nor friends. Nor are they human at all, but rather a herd of 120 cows.

    John Dore with a herd of cows.
    John Dore with a herd of cows.

    A 58-year-old farmer from Co Kildare might seem an unlikely pivotal figure in a bitter dispute between the Gulf monarchies, but as the chief executive of the sprawling Baladna farm in the desert 60 kilometres north of Doha, Dore is a vital player in Qatar’s struggle for political survival.

    Food security has become an essential goal for a country facing a land, sea and air boycott imposed in June by Saudi Arabia, the

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