Northeast India’s first regional Centre for Agriculture with collaboration of Israel will be inaugurated in Mizoram in March 2018.
It will be first such centre in North East region of India being established with Israeli collaboration.
There are 22 such operational centres setup across India with support of Israel including in states of Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab.
The first centre was established in 2008 in Haryana.
This centre will be exclusively for processing of citrus fruits and will cater to the whole north east.
It has been set up with tripartite collaboration of Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of Israel and Mizoram Government.