India to support Israeli firms to set up dairy firms on PPP

NEW DELHI: India today said it will extend all cooperation to Israeli companies keen to work in the dairy sector here under the public-private-partnership mode.

This issue was discussed at a meeting between the Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and Israeli ambassador H E Daniel Carmon here, an official statement said.

Carmon shared that many Israeli companies were interested to work in India in the field of dairy under the PPP mode.

"India will extend all possible cooperation in this regard," said Singh, as per the statement.

India and Israel have also agreed to renew the present agreement to cooperate in the field of agriculture beyond 2015.

The two nations had signed a bilateral agreement in 2008 for cooperation in agriculture and allied sectors. The pact has been extended twice till 2015.

Within this framework, Israel has targeted to establish 28 Agriculture Centers of Excellence in nine states by 2015.