Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will experience hospitality of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s home-State during his maiden visit to Gujarat on Wednesday.
Already top political leaders of Japan and China savoured similar Gujarati hospitality after Modi elevated from Gujarat’s Chief Minister to Prime Minister of India in May 2014.
The Israeli PM is on a day-long visit to Gujarat where he would be accompanied by PM Modi. Netanyahu will arrive on Wednesday morning at Ahmedabad and visit to Sabarmati Ashram situated on the bank of River Sabarmati from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport through a joint road-show with Modi, the way Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reached to Sabarmati Ashram during his visit last year. Both Modi and Netanyahu will spend some time at picturesque Sabarmati Riverfront also after paying visit to Gandhi Ashram.
later in the day both the leaders will visit International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCREATE) near Sanand in Ahmedabad and inaugurate the newly built campus. iCreate was launched by Modi in the year 2011 when he was Gujarat Chief Minister.
Both the Prime Ministers will also visit the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Vadrad village of Prantij taluka in Sabarkantha district.
They will unveil a permanent iconic monument, go around the plug nursery and poly house, and interact with progressive farmers. It is the only Centre of its kind in the State built by National Horticulture Mission Horticulture Department at a cost of Rs 12-crore as a joint enterprise between India and Israel.
It was as per MoU signed between the two countries during Vibrant Global Summit to maximize yield, help farmers increase their income.
The saplings are priced at lower than market rates. It is an improvement over traditional methods of grafting and planting saplings. It was built in 2013 with a view to providing technically advanced education, modern training and demonstration of integrated 50-lakh disease-free saplings of mainly vegetable which can be planted in adverse agro-climatic conditions and that can withstand insects and pests.
Gujarat’s Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Agriculture Minister R.C. Faldu and other dignitaries are also scheduled to be present there.