With cows, chickens and greenhouses, Qatar takes on regional boycott

Workers inspect vegetables in a greenhouse at Agrico, which has the country's biggest hydroponic farm, in Al-Khor, north of Doha, Qatar May 15, 2019. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon

DOHA (Reuters) - Two years after flying in thousands of dairy cows to beat a trade embargo, Qatari milk producer Baladna has made its first exports.

Qatar is the world's top liquefied natural gas exporter but a net importer of nearly everything else. The small but wealthy country has been under a trade and transport boycott by Saudi Arabia and its allies since June 2017 that has forced it to retool an economy once heavily reliant on fellow Gulf states.