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Spices
for Indian kitchens from distant Comoros
Thursday February 24, 2011 08:40:14 AM,
Shubha Singh,
IANS
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New Delhi: Spices such as cloves and pepper used in
Indian kitchens will soon have a flavour of Comoros, an Indian
Ocean island nation located in the Mozambique Channel between
northern Madagascar and Africa. India too is looking forward to
exporting medicines to the tiny country of 700,000 people.
Indian businessmen have travelled to Comoros to sign contracts for
import of the new crops of commodities that will be available in
August/September. The spices from Comoros are cheaper than similar
produce from Sri Lanka.
With this, the trade between India and Comoros is expected to show
a healthy increase.
Comoros, one of the largest producers of cloves and nutmeg,
channels most of its produce through Madagascar. The cloves,
nutmeg and white pepper from Comoros will reach India through
Dubai or Madagascar.
Comoros Foreign Minister Fahim Said Ibrahim, who was in Delhi
recently to attend the India-LDC Ministerial conference, said
"direct trade has started between India and Comoros".
Comoros, one of the Least Developed Countries (LDC), has a largely
agricultural economy and is heavily dependent on imports to meet
its requirements.
It imports medicines from Mauritius, but the majority of these
drugs are made in India. Indian businessmen are now looking to
export medicines directly to Comoros.
"India has offered to help Comoros in the power and health sectors
and in the fields of vocational training and human resource
development," Ibrahim, who met with External Affairs Minister S.M.
Krishna, told IANS.
The Comoros minister said India is ready to support the
development process of Comoros.
There is a proposal to set up a vocational training centre in
Moroni, the capital of Comoros. Besides, a power plant is to be
set up outside Moroni.
People from Comoros have started travelling to India for medical
treatment as the cost of treatment is lower than that in France or
other neighbouring countries.
Relations between India and Comoros gained momentum after the
visit of the President of the Union of Comoros, Ahmed Abdullah
Mohamed Sambi, to New Delhi in November, 2007 on the invitation of
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend the International
Conference on Federalism.
Last year a five-member delegation of the Comoros Chamber of
Commerce had visited India to attend the India International Trade
Fair.
(Shubha Singh can be contacted at shubhasingh101@gmail.com)
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