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The Cow Called Jamaica Hope: How a Jamaican Engineered a Better Cow for the Tropics

The Cow Called Jamaica Hope: How a Jamaican Engineered a Better Cow for the Tropics

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Jamaica is known for reggae, sprint legends, Blue Mountain coffee, and a culture that seems too large for one small island. But there is something else Jamaica gave the tropics — something far less famous, but deeply important.

A cow.

Not just any cow.

A cow designed for heat, hillsides, ticks, poor pasture, and the daily struggle of small farmers who needed milk, income, and a way out of poverty.

At a time when European dairy cattle failed in the tropics, and local cattle could survive but barely produced enough milk, one Jamaican scientist looked at the problem and decided Jamaica would not simply import an answer.

Jamaica would build one.This is the story of the cow called Jamaica Hope — and how Dr Thomas Lecky, a Jamaican, engineered a better cow for the tropics.

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