 Livestock really matters in this region and therefore Ilri's work in this region has greater importance. This is a region which hosts one of the world's largest number of livestock and one of the largest number of people dependent on livestock and hence the sector that is growing at the rate of 4.6% in a country like India is an extremely important sector not only from the economic point of view but also from livelihood generation point of view and from nutrition point of view as well. Talking about the importance of livestock, talking about Ilri and talking about celebrating Ilri at 40 we have a very important person from India who is celebrating Ilri at 40 with us today and that is Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. Dr. Swaminathan is known worldwide for his contribution to bringing Green Revolution in this part of the world. He is known as the father of Green Revolution in South Asia. He was the first World Food Prize Laureate and many more. He has been awarded this country's largest civilian awards and we are so privileged to have Dr. Swaminathan send his message to which will become a part of Ilri at 40 celebrations. First of all let me congratulate Ilri on the 40th anniversary because I was the Vice Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee to CJR TAC. Sir John Crawford was Chairman and I was Vice Chairman. When we decided that the livestock sector requires as much attention as wheat and rice and that is why the two institutes were started, one Ilrad and Ilri. One to look after diseases like trepanous homiosis and East Coast fever. The other was to look at the transhumans, the nomadic movement of animals across Africa along the Sahelian zone like the massage for example and so on. But later on these two got united into one institution and they have had worldwide impact because for the first time most up-to-date scientific research, scientific work was brought to bear on the livestock sector. And the office in India has been an eye-opener because India is one of the largest animal population, farm animal population. And livestock and livelihoods are so closely related in India. And also the ownership of livestock is much more egalitarian than the ownership of land. And therefore the livestock sector's importance for poverty alleviation for overcoming malnutrition is very obvious. And of course livestock requires nutrition, healthcare, processing and marketing. And as has been shown under the leadership of the late Dr. Kurian, the National Daily Development Board has shown that if you bring all the elements together from breeding to feeding to marketing, processing and cell, we can achieve very high growth rates. And today we are proud to say that we are the number one country in the world in milk production. And that was possible because of technology, public policy, this synthesis between the two. And Ilry laid the foundation stone for such a synergy between technology and public policy.