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Israeli ambassador & DoNER minister discuss start-ups, food processing
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Friday, 23 February, 2018, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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Start-ups, food processing and innovation and technology were among the topics of common interest discussed by a delegation led by Daniel Carmon, Israel’s Ambassador to India, and Jitendra Singh, minister of state (independent charge), Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), minister of state, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), personnel, public grievances and pensions, atomic energy and space, in New Delhi.
Carmon informed that a Centre for Agriculture, with the collaboration of Israeli experts, is going to be inaugurated in Mizoram on March 7, 2018. “This will be the first such centre in the North-East region of India that is being established with Israeli collaboration,” he added.
Set up with a cost of Rs 8-10 crore, this centre is exclusively for processing of citrus fruits. The project has been set up with the tripartite collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, the Government of Israel and the Government of Mizoram.
Israel will provide expertise knowledge and professional support. Though located in Mizoram, this centre will cater to the whole North-East.
There are 22 such operational centres in India, including those in the states of Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab. The first centre was established in 2008 in Haryana.
Carmon said, “In the long run, Israel wants to establish one such centre in each state.”
Singh said, “This centre is a beginning of the larger collaboration between the two countries in this area. The ministry of DoNER will coordinate wherever required.”
“It will benefit the farmers of the North-Eastern region in the long run, and will also encourage the farmers from other regions. It will serve as a model of learning for other countries in the Indian subcontinent,” he added.
Singh said that the Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given priority to the development of the North-Eastern region of the country.
He said, “Sikkim has been declared the first organic state of India and Israel can look forward to this kind of collaboration there also.” Both sides agreed that it will benefit the people of the North-East in the areas of innovation, specially for start-ups.
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