Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for vegetables Protected Cultivation
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3rd Nov, 2020
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- The Chief Minister of Assam, SabanandaSonowal laid the foundation stone of Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for vegetables Protected Cultivation in Khetri in the outskirts of Guwahati, Assam.
- The centre will provide exposure to the latest Israeli technologies to the farmers of the state.
- The centre is to provide a major boost to agricultural and horticultural production in Assam.
- The aim is to double farmers’ income in the region through infusion of technology in agribusiness, agriculture and food processing.
- The India-Israel Action Plan was signed in 2006. There are three phases in the plan
- The phase I was implemented between 2008 and 2010. During this phase, a number of technologies were transferred from Israel to India namely horticulture mechanization, orchard and canopy management, protected cultivation, nursery management and micro irrigation. During this phase, India also imported planting machineries. The states of Haryana and Maharashtra were focused during this phase. Experts from Israel trained number of officers in the states.
- A three-year Action Plan was framed for phase II between 2012 and 2015 under the Indo-Israel Action Plan.
- During this phase, the states such as Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan were added to the existing states. During the second phase, the activities such as water use efficiency, post-harvest management, waste water use, dairying were taken up for training and improvisation. The phase was later extended. During the extended phase, states such as Tamil Nadu and Punjab were also included.
- Phase 3 was implemented between 2015 and 2018. The activities of phase 1 and 2 were extended to other states such as Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand.
- Currently India is implementing the Three-Year Work Programme 2018-20. It was under this programme that the Centre of Excellence is being constructed in Assam. This is also a part of Indo-Israel Action Plan.
