In Laos 🇱🇦, farmers and herders sell their buffaloes 🐃 when they have to pay hospital bills, finance a wedding or compensate for a poor rice harvest 🌾. But today these animals suffer from malnutrition and, weakened, become ill and are decimated by epidemics. An innovative diet could help them.
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On this episode, we talk to Jo Smith about Ock Pop Tok, the textile workshop and visitor center she and her Lao partner, Veomanee Douangdala, established there over a decade ago, and why it’s important to preserve traditional crafts from the area. Next up is a discussion with Susie Martin, the Australian expat who co-founded the Laos Buffalo Dairy, which not only produces delicious cheeses and ice creams for restaurants in town, but does so with a sustainable business model that helps local farmers breed and care for their animals. Finally, co-founder Michael Vogler tells us why they embrace a no-riding approach on the treks they offer at MandaLao Elephant Conservation.
Das historische Zentrum von Luang Prabang liegt zwischen dem Mekong und seinem Nebenfluss Nam Khan. Bis zur Abschaffung der Monarchie in Laos 1975 residierten hier die Könige des Landes. Heute ist der Ort von der Unesco als Welterbe anerkannt.
Luang Prabang, LaosCNN —
We’ve all heard of buffalo mozzarella. But in one popular Southeast Asia destination, a farm is offering travelers a chance to sample a wide variety of cheeses using milk from local buffalos instead of cows.
Laos Buffalo Dairy, in the UNESCO-listed heritage town of Luang Prabang, is the country’s first dairy and buffalo farm. And it was actually the byproduct of a midlife crisis.
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Cutting through the centre of Luang Prabang’s UNESCO World Heritage-listed Old Town is a street lined with temples, palaces, French colonial architecture, restaurants and cafes. Sisavangvong Road becomes Sakkaline Road until it intersects with Riverview Park, near the junction of the Mekong and Nam Khan Rivers. Every evening, one section that’s several hundred metres long is closed off to motorists for the Night Market, where about 250 handicraft vendors sell textiles, ceramics, jewellery and artworks. See tourismluangprabang.org
A buffalo rental scheme and carbon credit-earning lick blocks are helping lift rural Laos farmers out of poverty.
The Australian initiatives are improving the buffalo herd through nutrition, vaccination programs and better breeding and have led to the country’s first buffalo dairy. ABC's Landline program takes a look.
In Laos, water buffalo are considered "savings books for times of need". If someone has to go to the hospital, if rice runs out or if a wedding is coming up, you sell a buffalo. But most are weak and malnourished. Parasites and diseases affect the ruminants. Innovative feed blocks could improve the situation.
A young team of animal specialists wants to feed the buffalo in Laos - with food blocks developed by Australian scientists. With their help, the buffaloes can be adequately fed all year round for the first time, they become healthier, put on more meat and produce up to 30 percent more milk. So far, however, this has not been used at all in Laos, milking is unknown here. At the same time, many children in Laos are chronically malnourished, with consequences for their entire lives. Enriching the children's diet with water buffalo and goat milk could mean quick help and every day counts. The window of opportunity to avert irreversible damage from malnutrition is narrow.
Milk from water buffalo cows and, more recently, from goats is used in feeding programs, including in the border region with China, where generation after generation of villagers live in poverty and malnutrition affects almost half of the children. With knowledge and free blocks of feed for the cattle farmers in their luggage, the animal specialists teach the villagers how to milk their animals and how to prepare simple milk dishes. There is hardly anything in which the cultures of the world differ so much as in food. What tastes good and what the palate perceives as not tasty is passed down through generations - a huge challenge for the team. Can the agricultural avant-gardists get the villagers used to the new taste in food?
“Susie Martin said, “This helps farmers earn extra income and provides them with milk for their families and communities. This innovative initiative will be a benefit and will help address the rising concerns of low nutrition rates among Cambodian children.”
“To achieve this, we need to introduce buffalo milk to the market, partnering with hotels and restaurants currently importing buffalo dairy products,” Martin added.
The Laos Buffalo Dairy, a sustainable farm aimed at improving the welfare and nutrition of Luang Prabang's rural population, is the perfect place to stop for a scoop of gelato to cool down after a day of adventures.
