PM Narendra Modi on tour to Africa to import tur dal from Mozambique

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a five-day tour to African countries. He will cover South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania, the gateway to several landlocked African countries. Before his Africa visit, the Union Cabinet has granted approval on India signing a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Mozambique for pulses import and drug trafficking prevention. Moreover, another MOU with Tanzania envisages promotion of Indian traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy and with Mauritius for rural development and poverty alleviation.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 5 July 2016.

The MoU with Mozambique would includes targets for imports of red gram (tur dal) and other pulses for five financial years and aims at doubling the trade from one lakh tonnes in 2016-17 to two lakh tonnes in 2020-21. It is expected that the signing of this MoU could open up the doors for similar arrangements with other countries.
The MoU between India and Tanzania would be to provide a structured framework for bilateral cooperation for promotion of Indian traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy in Tanzania. The financial resources for conducting research, training courses, conferences / meetings will be met from AYUSH Ministry’s existing allocated budget and plan schemes. Tanzania is in East Africa and has nearly 70,000 Indian diaspora. The bilateral ties have been marked by cooperation in health and medicine.
Incidentally, the Ministry of AYUSH , as part of its mandate to promote Indian systems of medicine globally, had also signed MoUs with countries that include China, Malaysia, Hungary, Bangladesh and Nepal.


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