Olmert tries hand at dairy diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spent his first day in China learning to milk a cow on a farm yesterday, and hoped people of this vast country get accustomed to dairy products.

The model dairy farm on the outskirts of Beijing has adopted Israeli technology and equipment and was the visiting Israeli prime minister's first destination on his three-day visit to China.

Israel is trying to make China's huge population use more and more dairy products, and Olmert hoped all Chinese farms adopted the system followed by the one near Beijing.