SOUTH Korea’s agricultural cooperative said today it has exported dairy cattle semen to Malaysia and Uganda for artificial insemination, reported the South’s Yonhap news agency.

NongHyup Agribusiness Group, under the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, said it had shipped 1,500 units and 5,000 units of semen meant for artificial insemination to Malaysia and Uganda, respectively.

It said this marked the first time that South Korea was shipping the product to a Southeast Asian country.

The federation said this was the fourth consecutive year it was exporting the product to Uganda.

The latest project paves the way for South Korea’s dairy industry to tap deeper into the Southeast Asian market, at a time when Malaysia seeks to step up the production of milk products.

The Dairy Cattle Improvement Centre, under Nonghyup, said the productivity of South Korean dairy cattle was three times higher than that of Malaysia’s animals, adding that the project would lend support to the Malaysian milk industry. – Bernama, December 27, 2017.