यूएई-भारत के संबंधों में यह अब तक का सबसे अच्छा दौर: मोदी

Published : Aug 24, 2019, 5:34 PM IST

Updated : Sep 28, 2019, 3:19 AM IST

प्रधानमंत्री मोदी तीन देशों की यात्रा के दौरान यूएई गए मोदी ने कहा कि यूएई के युवराज शेख मोहम्मद बिन जायेद और मैं दोनों एक-दूसरे को भाई के जैसा मानते हैं. पढ़ें पूरी खबर जाने क्या क्या कहा यूएई में प्रधानमंत्री ने...

यूएई-भारत के संबंधों में यह अब तक का सबसे अच्छा दौर: मोदी

प्रधानमंत्री मोदी और युवराज जायेद

नईदिल्ली/ अबुधाबीः प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने अरब अमीरात (यूएई) के अपने तीसरे यात्रा पर कहा कि दोनों देशो के द्विपक्षीय संबंध अब तक के अपने सबसे अच्छे दौर में है. दोनों देशों का रिश्ता चार साल में क्रेता-विक्रेता के रिश्ते से बढ़ कर विस्तृत रणनीतिक भागीदार का रूप ले चुका है.

उन्होंने यूएई की आधिकारिक समाचार एजेंसी डब्ल्यूएएम को दिये एक साक्षात्कार में कहा कि भारत को पांच हजार अरब डॉलर की अर्थव्यवस्था बनने का लक्ष्य पाने की दिशा में यूएई के रूप में एक मूल्यवान भागीदार मिला है.

मोदी तीन देशों की यात्रा के दौरान फ्रांस के बाद यहां पहुंचे. उन्होंने कहा, भारत ने 2024-25 तक पांच हजार अरब डॉलर की अर्थव्यवस्था बनने का महत्वाकांक्षी लक्ष्य तय किया है, जिसे हासिल किया जा सकता है.

हमने अगले पांच साल में करीब 1,700 अरब डॉलर का निवेश आकर्षित करने का लक्ष्य रखा है. इसे हासिल करने के लिये सरकार घरेलू के साथ ही विदेशी निवेश को आकर्षित करने पर काम कर रही है.

मोदी ने कहा कि पिछले चार साल में यूएई की उनकी इस तीसरी यात्रा से द्विपक्षीय संबंधों के विस्तार के आवेग को बनाये रखने की दोनों देशों की भावना का पता चलता है.

उन्होंने कहा, हम आपसी फायदेमंद भागीदारी के जरिये पांच हजार अरब डॉलर की अर्थव्यवस्था बनने का लक्ष्य पाने में यूएई को महत्वपूर्ण भागीदार मानते हैं.

उन्होंने कहा कि दोनों देशों के आपसी संबंधों का अब तक का यह सबसे अच्छा दौर है. भारत में विभिन्न क्षेत्रों में यूएई का निवेश लगातार बढ़ रहा है.

प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा कि भारत में अक्षय ऊर्जा, खाद्य, बंदरगाह, हवाईअड्डा, रक्षा विनिर्माण समेत कई अन्य क्षेत्र हैं जिनमें निवेश को लेकर दिलचस्पी बढ़ रही है. बुनियादी संरचना और आवास जैसे क्षेत्रों में यूएई का निवेश बढ़ रहा है.
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वित्त वर्ष 2018-19 में 60 अरब डॉलर के द्विपक्षीय व्यापार के साथ यूएई हमारा तीसरा सबसे बड़ा व्यापार भागीदार है. हमारे देश की कई कंपनियां यहां निवेश कर रही हैं. दोनों देश भारत में यूएई के 75 अरब डॉलर के निवेश की प्रतिबद्धता को अमल में लाने के लिये मिलकर काम कर रहे हैं.

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MOZAMBIQUE COFFEE RESTORATION
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Gorongosa, Mozambique - 3 August 2019
1. Various of coffee bean grower Querida Barequinha sorting through coffee beans
2. SOUNDBITE (chiGorongosi) Querida Barequinha, coffee bean grower:
"The reason why I like growing coffee is because it earns me an income that goes into my pocket. I use the income I get for all sorts of costs for the family like buying soap, cooking oil, school books for the children and other household goods."
3. Wide of Barequinha sorting through coffee beans
4. Mozambican flag on Barequinha's t-shirt
5. SOUNDBITE (chiGorongosi) Querida Barequinha, coffee bean grower:
"I would love my kids to have the hope of growing coffee and what it would mean for them, because it offers us a source of hope."
6. Various of locals sorting coffee beans and processing them
7. Mother carrying coffee bean plants on her head while walking with children
8. Various of locals picking through coffee fruit
9. Close of coffee fruit in bag
10. Close of local picking coffee fruit and putting them into bag
11. Various of locals carrying coffee fruit on heads while walking through fields
12. Wide of vehicle driving past coffee fruit trees
13. Close of sign for Gorongosa National Park
14. Set-up of Matthew Jordan sifting through dry beans with his hands at Gorongosa coffee bean factory
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Jordan, associate director, Agricultural Livelihoods Program of Gorongosa National Park:
"So what we grow on Mount Gorongosa is shade grown Arabica coffee. And this is, this is an effort to grow this very high quality premium commodity for the community and at the same time inter-row crop with, with staple food products, staple food crops and this agro forestry system. So this is native hardwood trees planted alongside the coffee trees. And what that does is it provides its shade about 60 percent, 60/40 percent shade for the coffee. And that creates this really high quality coffee, big beans, delicious, delicious coffee beans."
16. Coffee bean factory
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Jordan, associate director of the Agricultural Livelihoods Program of Gorongosa National Park:
"After the political situation calmed down we were able to initiate this scaling phase and that's where we now. We're in an exponential growth phase. So we started with this 40,000 trees which is, what the coffee that's produced behind me that's where that comes from, is this pilot phase. And now this year we've already planted 300,000 coffee trees. And every year, every subsequent year we hope to plant between 200 and 300 thousand coffee seedlings. So that's a ten fold sort of growth. We have to keep that going year on year. And that's the type of scale that's really required to create a maximum impact for the community and to have something that really addresses this sense of urgency for the rainforest."
18. Matthew with handful of beans
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Jordan, associate director of the Agricultural Livelihoods Program of Gorongosa National Park:
"So during the five years we've had two years of very intense social political conflict. We've had one of the most severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa history. We've had cases of epidemic plagues on food crops like maize and most recently I've had cyclone Idai. And through all of it, we've been there every single day on that mountain working with the community on this project of hope. And what we've seen is that hope is really transformative. And people are really believing in it. And that's why they keep coming back to us. That's why they, they keep promoting it and we see that every year we're onboarding more and more farmers."
20. Various of locals using machine to extract bean from coffee fruit
21. Close of children watching
22. Close of beans
23. Woman throwing away coffee fruit after extracting bean
24. SOUNDBITE (chiGorongosi) Vaida Frangene, Gorongosa coffee bean grower:
"I started as a volunteer in the reforesting programme and then I started growing coffee. I earned cash for it last year and there is more to come this year. I really, really like coffee because it earns money. Last year I bought new capulanas (brightly printed cloth used as skirts and scarves) and some things for the house. It was great."
25. Various of beans being extracted and sorted
LEADIN:
Mozambique could be on its way to becoming one of Africa's major coffee producers thanks to a major increase of coffee production on Mount Gorongosa.
Coffee giant Nespresso has taken an interest in the project, which is regenerating the area by providing an income for locals and restoring the rapidly eroding rainforest.
STORYLINE:
Querida Barequinha intently sorts through the coffee beans laid out on racks to dry in the sun, plucking out any that are cracked or misshapen.
"I like growing coffee because it earns cash that goes right into my pocket," she said, with a darting smile. "I can buy soap, cooking oil, schoolbooks and other household items. It's very useful."
Barequinha has been growing coffee for four years on the upper slopes of Mount Gorongosa, where clouds frequently cover the rainforest canopy.
A mother of seven, Barequinha says she is encouraging her family to join her in coffee production.
"I would love my kids to have the hope of growing coffee and what it would mean for them, because it offers us a source of hope," she says, in chiGorongosi, a dialect of the Sena language.
Barequinha is one of 400 Mozambican farmers producing coffee that both helps locals earn an income while at the same time restoring the rapidly eroding rainforest of Mount Gorongosa.
At the start of this month (August 2019) a peace agreement was finally signed between Mozambique's government and Renamo rebels who had been insurging against the regime for 6 years.
The rebels' military headquarters are nearby and with peace now on the mountaintop, there are plans to dramatically scale up coffee production, as part of the national park's plan to boost the incomes of people living around the park as well as revitalising the environment.
Mount Gorongosa rises 1,863 metres (6,112 feet) above Mozambique's central plains and the tropical hardwood forest of its upper rainy regions is being stripped by local farmers who want to grow maize.
Coffee is a crop that can stop that deforestation, say park experts.
Shade-grown coffee shrubs produce better tasting coffee beans, so the trees are planted among indigenous trees.
Matthew Jordan is an associate director of the Agricultural Livelihoods Program of Gorongosa National Park and he says interspersing local trees such as albizias and other crops with coffee trees vastly improves the quality of the coffee bean.
"This is native hardwood trees planted alongside the coffee trees. And what that does is it provides its shade about 60 percent, 60/40 percent shade for the coffee. And that creates this really high quality coffee," says Jordan.
Not only does planting more trees allow the coffee to thrive, but it has improved the environment.
"We're in an exponential growth phase. So we started with this 40,000 trees which is, what the coffee that's produced behind me that's where that comes from, is this pilot phase. And now this year we've already planted 300,000 coffee trees," says Jordan.
"That's the type of scale that's really required to create a maximum impact for the community."
Twenty years ago Gorongosa park was derelict as a result of the country's devastating civil war (1977-1992) and much of its wildlife had been poached.
The park is now being revived with help from a non-governmental organisation supported by American philanthropist Greg Carr who is working with the Mozambican government.
The organisation allocates more than half of its annual budget to supporting the communities that live around the park.
There are more than 800 Renamo rebels in three armed camps at the top of Mount Gorongosa. Their presence had been restricting the expansion of coffee and other agriculture.
But now that a peace agreement has been signed, Jordan believes the project will be transformative.
"During the five years we've had two years of very intense social political conflict. We've had one of the most severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa history. We've had cases of epidemic plagues on food crops like maize and most recently I've had cyclone Idai. And through all of it, we've been there every single day on that mountain working with the community on this project of hope," he says.
He also thinks that the project's need for farmers will give rebels a motivation to give up their weapons.
"What we've seen is that hope is really transformative. And people are really believing in it. And that's why they keep coming back to us. That's why they, they keep promoting it and we see that every year We're onboarding more and more farmers."
Vaida Frangene started as a volunteer and quickly progressed to becoming a coffee bean grower.
"Last year I bought new capulanas (brightly printed cloth used as skirts and scarves) and some things for the house. It was great," she says.
Mozambique is not considered to be one of Africa's major coffee producers like Ethiopia and Kenya, but Mount Gorongosa's unique climate makes it very promising.
The development in the area has attracted the interest of coffee giant Nespresso, who is keen on promoting the park's coffee production.
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