Pioneers are often entrepreneurially led and this is certainly the case with the Thai dairy concern Farm Chokchai. International Dairy Topics recently visited this innovative company to see first hand what is happening there. Farm Chokchai is locatedin Pakchong District, some two hours outside Bangkok, and encompasses 8,000 acres spread between several ranches. It has been innovative on many fronts but we decided to look into two specific areas - how it has created its own breeding programme to provide cows suitable for local, tropical conditions and how it has a novel 'cash crop' of visitors, 300,000 of whom paid last year to see a working dairy farm.
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