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Qatar uncowed: Boycott-busting bovine arrive to boost milk supplies
New shipping routes have also been opened with Oman to circumnavigate the siege.
The several dozen Holsteins were flown in from Budapest by a Qatar Airways cargo plane on Tuesday, and are the first of 4,000 cattle to be imported by August.
The cattle will be farmed for both milk and meat.
Qatar aims to increase by five-fold the number of cattle it has in the country as it looks to lessen its food dependency on imports as a result of the ongoing blockade.
"Before, most of the milk in Qatar was imported from Saudi Arabia and the UAE," said Dore.
"At the moment the gap is being filled by Turkish imports, which are welcome for the present but the quality won't compare with local produce."
Moutaz al-Khayyat, the chairman of Qatari firm Power International which bought and imported the cows, told Bloomberg News that once all the 4,000 cows arrive in Qatar, they will meet around 30 percent of the country's dairy needs.
He said it could take up to 60 flights to bring all the cattle into Qatar.
The bemused bovine took to their new surroundings at a farm north of Doha on Wednesday surrounded by journalists, with their arrival a sign of the Gulf state's defiance of the Saudi-led blockade.
Qatari officials have confidently claimed they can withstand the boycott "forever".