He said cow exports are expected to reign in over half a million euros for Romanian farmers.
The protocol was signed in September.
“It’s an extraordinary opportunity for Romanian farmers. Demand from China is high and in the 7-10 year period the protocol covers we need to exports over 500,000 cows. We’ll be sending one-year old animals, developing females, whose export price is of around EUR1,000,” said Zoltan Haller, vice-president of a cow breeders association.
The first lot, of 4-5,000 cows, will be sent to china in January 2014.
Haller said Romania is the first European country to export cows to China, and the fourth in the world, following Australia, New Zeeland, and Uruguay.