Japanese Ambassador Meets Jitendra Singh

Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh on Monday said Japan has specialization in food processing units and there is huge potential for opening specialized food parks for apples, cherry, strawberry in Jammu and Kashmir.

He made the remarks during a meeting with Japanese Ambassador Kenji Hiramatsu who called on him.

An official release of the meeting said that during the meeting, Singh discussed various projects from Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and the northeast region.

Singh mentioned that under the Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP), 12 candidates from Jammu have been selected in Japanese companies.

The Ambassador said the TITP program would be extended in the northeast with the participation of the Japanese government.

The Minister proposed that 100 students can be taken under the TITP program from Ladakh in the future.

Noting that Japan shares “emotional and historical relation” with India, especially in the northeast, he said progress has been made in the level of collaboration in fields such as bullet trains, nuclear, space technology, and railways.

“There is huge potential for opening specialized food parks for J-K apples, cherry, strawberry, and Ladakh berry, on the lines of citrus fruit parks in the northeast

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