Saudi Arabia's dairy industry is booming, but is it sustainable? Moooove over, Europe - Saudi Arabia's dairy industry is booming thanks to Al-Safi Dairy Farm, the largest in the world.
Almarai from Saudi Arabia has the largest milk production with 1.47 million metric tons per year. This volume is similar to the milk production of Indonesia or Norway. Almarai has over 100,000 dairy cows.
India is the world's largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil. Since the 1970s, most of the expansion in milk production has been in South Asia, which is the main driver of milk production growth in the developing world.
Kyvalley Dairy Group is located in the Goulburn / Murray Valley region of Northern Victoria, which produces more than 25% of Australia's milk or 2.3 billion litres.
Qin is the richest farmer in the world and owns 883 million shares of Muyuan stock, 40.06% of the company. Qin's wife Qian Ying is also a billionaire, and together they own a majority stake in Muyuan. His son Qin Muyuan (秦牧原) is a vice-president at Muyuan Group.
The Williams family, of Williams Cattle Company in South Australia, have the title of owning Australia's biggest farming aggregation — the 2.37 million-hectare Anna Creek and The Peake Stations, covering an area bigger than Slovenia.
As as June 30, 2021, the average area operated of large cropping farms in Australia was around 4.66 thousand hectares.
Worth – China is a world leader in agriculture production and supplies about 50% of the world's vegetables, producing 500 million tons. A large population is associated with agriculture in this country. 2020/21 cotton production was 26.5 million 480-pound bales. Generally, it is the best farming country in the world.
The majority of milk production occurs on the south-east seaboard in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania.
Many breeding animals now come from North America. These cows are mainly black and white. The most popular breed in the world and in Australia; nearly 1.4 million of Australia's 1.65 million dairy cows are Holsteins. Holstein cows produce large quantities of milk; some Holsteins produce 10,000 litres in a year.
India is home to the highest number of milk cows of any country, at around 58 million head as of 2021. That year, the European Union had the second most milk cows worldwide, at over 20.5 million head.
Saputo Inc. Dairy Farmers of America produces the most milk in the world. Dairy Farmers of America produces 3.5% of the world's milk.
Dairy farm facts and regions
Australian dairying is a $3 billion industry that employs 42,000 Australians and feeds millions everyday.
Australia has a diverse agricultural, fisheries and forestry sector, producing a range of crop and livestock products (Figure 3).
Nearly a quarter of the world's most fertile soil, known as Chernozem, is located in Ukraine. Chernozem is black soil rich in organic matter called 'humus,' which is made up of decomposed plants. More than 65 percent of arable land in Ukraine is composed of Chernozem deposits, making it ideal for farming.
The person who holds the most land in this pastoral-lease data, by far, is the Western Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, who controls 9.2m hectares, or 1.2% of Australia's landmass, through three different corporate entities. The biggest corporate landholder is the ASX-listed Australian Agricultural Company.
The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia.
Australia's biggest private landowners, pastoralists Donny and Colleen Costello and their equity partner, former racing horse trainer Viv Oldfield, have extended their vast cattle station empire to more than 9.2 million hectares, after acquiring Mount Doreen Station in the Northern Territory for around $70 million.
Anna Creek Station is the world's largest working cattle station. It is located in the Australian state of South Australia.
The sixth report of the Register of foreign ownership of agricultural land as at 30 June 2021 has been released. Key findings show foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land is 14.1%, compared with 10.9% the previous year. The majority continues to be in the form of leasehold interests.