A Declaration of Intent signed by the Ministers of Agriculture of Israel and Paraguay, establishes the framework to expand cooperation in the areas of irrigation, human capacity building, research and development, agricultural innovation, environment and agro-entrepreneurship.
The Joint Declaration was signed during the Agritech 2015 Exhibition by Israel’s Minister of Agriculture, Yair Shamir, who signed on behalf of MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation; and Paraguay’s Minister of Agriculture, Jorge Raul Gattini Ferreira, in the presence of Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Gil Haskel, and Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture’s Director General, Yitzhak Ben-David.
Agritech Israel 2015, the 19th International Agricultural Technology Exhibition, one of the world’s most important exhibitions in the field of agricultural technologies was held April 28 – 30, 2015 at the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center in Tel Aviv.
