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Israel agriculture minister to visit India in April to cement bilateral ties
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Friday, 12 February, 2016, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d Dana Krush, deputy chief of mission, Embassy of Israel, on Wednesday announced the visit of agriculture minister of Israel to India in the month of April 2016 to cement the bilateral ties between India and Israel for its third phase cooperation.
Addressing an interactive session of Indian agri and horticulture sector with visiting Israel business delegation here under the aegis of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Krush pointed out that the first phase of Indo-Israel business cooperation came into being in 2005 which is subsequently being strengthened with such visits.
“Recently the visit of President of Indian Republic and its external affairs minister to Israel has led to further intensifying the two countries’ business and economic ties in multiple sectors including defence, agri and horti sectors. Israel has limited landscape whereas India has large acreages of land pieces that can be suitably nurtured to further enhance its agri and horti produced with superior technologies from Israel and her advanced sowing methodologies,” she said adding that in view of this background the visit gains significance.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr A K Singh, MD, National Horticulture Board, emphasised on the need for strengthening the cooperation in agri and horticulture sectors between India and Israel on an equitable proportion as the latter can help India improve its seed variety for higher production.
According to him, the NHB has been laying additional focus on creating multicommodities storage facilities in India to ensure that its production is sufficiently kept safe and stopped for being wastage.
“In Jammu & Kashmir, the NHB has created lot of cold storage facilities including CA (Central Atmospheric) chains as a result, apples in the region are not sold below the appropriate price as with these facilities in place, the apple growing community has been selling its produce at its will in all seasons,” he pointed out.
In his vote of thanks, Saurabh Sanyal, secretary-general, PHD Chamber, emphasised on the need to diversifying India’s cooperation with Israel in other sectors and offered the services of PHD Chamber in finding suitable business partners of both India and Israel in conducting their business in the most profitable manner.
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