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Botswana looks to India

Botswana, the world's largest diamond producer, is seeking training from India in the cutting and polishing of rough diamonds, The Economic Times reported.

"We are looking for increasing the number of slots for Botswana nationals to come for training courses here, especially in the diamond polishing and cutting sector," Botswana's High Commissioner Dorcas Ana Kgosietsile told IANS in an interview, the report said.

In recent years, there has been the emergence of a nascent diamond polishing industry in Botswana.

"I know that Indians can cut any shape or size, even if it is the size of a grain," she reportedly said.

The Botswana envoy was also keen to increase awareness in Botswana about India as a market for diamonds. "It is the third largest consumer of diamonds after the United States and Japan. With global recession, the US and Japanese markets had gone down, but India has been relatively resilient. I have been telling people in Botswana that they should be looking at India seriously," she said.

The Economic Times (India).