Camel milk has the advantage of being nutritious in order to build up the body's resistance, and the disadvantage of not being easy to produce, because camels don't cooperate with the milking process like cows do, and because the mother has to smell the young camels before she can produce milk.

Camel milk is high in calcium, low in saturated fatty acids, and even has medical value. A very healthy product, camel milk reduces the need for insulin in diabetics, is beneficial to newborns because it is allergen-free, and has also been shown to be beneficial to peptic ulcer sufferers, and to help with high blood pressure.

Once the production and quality control of camel milk is on a larger scale, it may not be long before people all over the world will have the opportunity to savor the taste and aroma of camel milk. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is promoting the sale of camel milk in Western countries, where it is a source of income for poor desert dwellers.

The development of the camel milk industry has faced a number of difficulties. First of all, most of the camel milk producers are nomadic herders who are unable to carry the sterilization and preservation equipment necessary to produce milk products. In addition, camels don't cooperate with milking like cows do, and a mother camel must smell her young before she will produce milk.

Milking takes about 90 seconds per session, 2-3 times a day, and a camel produces 2.5-3.5kg of milk per day, factors that have prevented the production of camel milk on a large scale.

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In terms of milk production, a camel produces 2.5-3.5 KG of milk per day. p>In terms of milk production, a dromedary camel produces only 1.2 tons of milk per year compared to a Holstein cow that produces 8-9 tons of milk per year. And according to 2017 data, the country's total camel stock is around 250,000 peaks, of which Xinjiang accounts for 51 percent.

With about 100,000-120,000 female camels, the total annual milk production is estimated to be less than 80,000 tons, with Xinjiang accounting for about 40,000 tons. This, coupled with the difficulty of collecting milk sources and the scarcity of factories with camel milk processing capacity, has resulted in high costs.

Economic Daily - China Economic Net reporter searched Tmall and saw that most of the prices of imported infant formula cow's milk powder are between 0.2 yuan and 0.4 yuan per gram, while most of the camel milk powder produced in Xinjiang is priced at 1.3 yuan to 2 yuan per gram, which is ranging from 3 to 10 times higher than the former price.

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