A customer from New Zealand wanted to buy a water buffalo for local farmers in Guilin

Water buffalo has been domesticated as a very important work force for farmers for thousands of years in China. Chinese farmers use them for ploughing rice paddies and pulling carts. On the road to Li River Cruise, and by the banks of the Li River, there are many water buffalos working in the rice paddies or having a leisure time on the river side. China Highlights customers were always amazed and started screaming when seeing herds of buffalos walking in the middle of the road and stopped the traffic. When they realized that they were harmless, they would get off the car and took photos of buffalos.

After knowing how important role a water buffalo plays for farmers in Southern China, one of our clients from New Zealand decided to donate 3000yuan(US$448) to help a local family to buy a water buffalo.

Our job is to find a proper family and a proper water buffalo. One of our colleagues' father who is a farmer did the investigation for us. Here is the story about the cost of water buffalos. It costs 5000-7000yuan (US$750 -US$1,050) for a two years old female “adult” buffalo, and it costs more for a male buffalo. With 3000yuan(US$448), we can buy a baby buffalo of 6 months old. It takes 2 years to feed a baby buffalo and to train it before it will be strong enough to work. Our company is having a hard time to decide which family to help with and what buffalo to buy. But thanks to this lovely customer from New Zealand, we will get back to you with the news of the family once we got the baby buffalo.

Plough the field