DUSHANBE, September 10, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the Chamber of Commerce and the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, India have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation, according to the Tajik CCI press service.

The document was inked by the Tajik CCI head Sharif Said and Mr. Om Prakash Agrawal, chairman of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, today morning.

Representatives of Indian business community have shown interest in cooperating with Tajik companies in the agrarian sector and offered the establishment of a joint venture for purchasing farm products from Tajikistan, the CCI press service said.

A Tajik-Indian Business Forum that kicked off in the Tajik government out-of-town residence, Pugus, in the Varzob district last Monday concluded in Dushanbe yesterday.  Senior representatives of 40 Indian companies working in sectors like energy, tourism, public health, pharmaceutics and agriculture attended the forum and Tajik Aluminum Company (Talco), HIMA Corporation, construction company Novy Vek (New Century), and some other companies represented Tajikistan at the event.  No cooperation documents were signed during the forum.