 We have officially established a hybrid rice research and development consortium as a unique public and private sector partnership that includes Erie as a convening center, but also nearly about 20 private sector seed companies as well as NGOs and a large number of public sector institutions with interest and activities in hybrid rice breeding and management and technology promotion. This consortium will generate income through the membership fees that private sector members pay through fees for germplasm that will be utilized by private sector members and the income will feed back into strengthening public sector breeding programs. With Erie and its NARS partners it will also provide a new mechanism for making germplasm available to the private sector, new guidelines for this that also ensures sustained income and sustained revenue that we can utilize for strengthening the research and development activities including capacity building for young scientists in developing countries with particular emphasis on rice breeding and hybrid rice. And we look forward to this as a very unique new public-private sector partnership that many of our NARS partners can also utilize in the future to directly deal with the private sector in terms of making their own germplasm available and following consistent guidelines that will in the end make hybrids better, better performing and more available at lower cost to many more rice farmers in Asia. And through that we believe hybrid rice will truly become a pro-poor technology that will have a major impact on bringing up yield growth rates that have slowed down in the recent 10 to 20 years.