 We would like to thank you for coming over and the organizer made this program very short and put it on the time slot where we normally go for a snack so as not to disturb your work. Today's event is very important and will become part of EARC3 so please stay with us. Before we call on Dr. Anzila, we would like to welcome our directors who are here, Dr. Bas Bowman, Dr. Glenn McDonald, Ms. Fiona Farrell, Dr. Bruce Kino and who else. We also would like to welcome other guests. We have many guests today. We have some delegates from the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Investors. We also have, after derogating, University CMU and Sultan Kudarad, is the person who wrote this poem. Very sure. It's a penchant position during that time and we also have the data. To celebrate, we asked the birth of the cross 100,000. It gives the idea of what's pretty and is its number. Just this morning, the previous celebration was the IR80,000. And BBGP forget to celebrate the birth of 90,000. But this perhaps gives an idea of how easy-breeders are. They sometimes forget to celebrate important occasions. Anyhow, reading at ERE started in the early 60s. The pioneers, priests at first, the big breeders, champions, kush. They were the drivers of the first Korean revolution. And we all know what it meant. We multiplied, more than double, the rice production globally. And no doubt, ERE was the main player in the world. And it has meant tremendous benefit for the farmers, rice consumers, along with the tropics. Today, ERE has released, we estimated, some 900 varieties, perhaps more. We don't know exactly, but close to 900, perhaps close to 1,000. Intense of countries, probably close to 50 countries. And the work goes on. We have the 90 million kush in 2050. We are now in 90 million. In 2035, we are 8.5 billion. Half of them, it rise as a staple food. So I think the challenge has not changed, perhaps, pure and ever. At works go on. If we now look at what the breeders of this New Zealand division has done, and we promote to Dr. Mateo, and the varieties, some ones out there in South Asia, just fantastic. It's changing the life of farmers and poor people tremendously. So just to mention, we are not giving up. We are just getting to the full speed. So this is 100,000 just to give you an idea that we are committed as people, perhaps even more. We know what to do. We have new technologies. And really, we are really willing and ready to take the challenge. So welcome again, everyone, and let's have a good party with our new baby, IR 100,000. Welcome. Thank you so much, Lafayane Sila, for that inspiring thought. We will now proceed to the next part of the program, and that is a talk by Dr. Glendagorio on TBGD Parallel Improvement Piles. Better mic. Thank you very much. And this is really, they call it sometimes in McDonald's, they celebrated their one billion hamburger. But this time at IRI, we're doing 100,000, 100k. Just to give you in the background, we are already 50 years at IRI. So it means we have, I started competing, we have 20,000 crosses a year. So that's the volume of crosses they're making. So breeders are playing around with the different varieties from the germplasma, from whatever they get, those varieties, and they make crosses and that's how we made these crosses. So making the best of it. And this is the 100,000. This 100,000 cross is coming from the irrigated rice breeding and bioportification. The idea here, they cross the insect RC 214 or IRI 1.1 cross with IR, I'm not going to tell the technical, IR 05 M109. This is a Japonica variety. Not very good, but very good, very high with an elevated nutrition value, especially zinc and iron. So the idea may be in here is where a breeder is to develop a high-end new variety which is a popular variety, insect RC 214 to improve the nutrition quality at the same time increase yield. So that's IR 100,000. Okay, we have here, we have the actual IR 100,000 cross born in 2012. It was crossed in 2012 wet season and you can see it there and the parents. So you can see after sometimes we'll be going there to have a picture taking. Over here, just to give you idea how breeders do the crossing. So you would best help to emasculate, help to make a plant male and to make it female, then how we make the crossing activity, the tedious way of much making. So we have the crossing block there that we call it the temple of blood breeding where we do the matching and actual crossing. And we have also here, Mr. Herrera, we have the opportunity, he is the one who first make the first cross of eating, Mr. Herrera. And he made all that. He made this hard time to see how he romanticize the crossing block. Marries, respect, no boundaries. If you have any question, there's a lot of controversy about this one. So any question is at the RH Bill. We have to ask Mr. Herrera for the details of that one. So we're just having this a very short ceremony. At the same time, I want you to enjoy, see around, make all this crosses. This is how we do the F1 and see the plants. We have a picture taking over there later. And I hope you enjoy this celebration. Thank you very much. Many people are asking, what's next? I ordered a thousand. Are we going more crosses a year or less crosses a year? As Mr. Herrera told us, we are doing, before it's a number game. Now we are doing precision reading. With the new tools that we have, it might be, we will have maybe lesser crosses. More precise. Okay, especially it's full cost recovery. It's more expensive to make crossings. Let's make it. Just to dream but think, to know the parents and make the cross to produce a better variety. Thank you very much. Okay, so, I own an apology to Donald. I called him Glenn McDonough. I come also at the school in Fagwarta who are also here. Who is also here. So the second part of the program is the unveiling of the Anyone Power's Friend Cross. So we are now going to proceed to that area. We are now going to have the photo shoot. Photo shoot of this.