 The Rice Knowledge Bank is a very very exciting development in Erie. It really began in 2002 with the work of some Erie scientists in bringing Erie's knowledge together that is ready for transfer. In other words it's validated knowledge that could go through to extension in the different countries. Since then it's really developed in terms of the Erie RKB which is Erie's knowledge ready for extension and most importantly our work in the regions helping rice scientists and extensionists in each country to organize their own rice knowledge that is ready for farmers. So there are actually two parts to the Rice Knowledge Bank. There's Erie's knowledge itself and then there are the country knowledge banks for example Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines in terms of their own knowledge being organized. I think the important thing for the Rice Knowledge Bank is its vision in terms of Erie and how we work with our partners. Erie is a science research institution and that is its most important work. Packaging that in a format to be used by countries and with partners in terms of for extension is really part of helping the science knowledge to be placed in a format that is for other users. The ultimate vision is up-to-date knowledge at the doorstep of farmers. So that's a long way from research in terms of the science that is the development of the technologies but that's our aim, that's our vision. Now that won't be done by Erie alone. In fact Erie is a catalyst in the process. It's really our work in country. It's our work with our country research partners, with the extension partners and then it can be in many different formats. It could be through telecentres, it could be as printed material, it could be as video or radio material. It's going out to many so that through the process farmers get the knowledge and in this we mean men and women. It's not just for the male section of the community. It includes the women who are very, very important agents at the farm level.