Punjab-based citrus fruit growers can now learn about Israeli technologies like drip irrigation to boost the crop production, at a newly opened Indo-Israel Centre of Excellence at Khanuara in Hoshiarpur.
The Center of Excellence for citrus fruit, inaugurated last week, will showcase some of the most advanced Israeli nursery and fruit cultivating technologies, adapted for Indian conditions by local experts.
This is the second centre in Punjab. The other centre at Kartarpur village in the state focuses on vegetables.
A total of 28 such centers are to be set up under the mutual cooperation agreement signed between the two countries. Currently, nine of them are operational.
These centers are being set up as part of the Indian government's National Horticulture Mission (NHM).
The National Horticulture Mission was launched in 2005-06 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to promote holistic growth of the horticulture sector through an area based regionally differentiated strategies. The scheme has been subsumed as a part of Mission for Integration Development of Horticulture (MIDH) during 2014-15.
MASHAV – Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Foreign Ministry of Israel has been providing professional leadership in the shape of experts, know-how and technologies in this regard.
