 Yeah, welcome. I'm Achim Dobermann. I'm the Programme Leader of IRI's Programme II, which is called the Sustainability of Intensive Rise Systems, Rise in the Environment. And I'm also leading the IRI-Simits Alliance Project on Intensive Protection Systems in Asia, which is one component of IRI's Programme II. In Programme II, which is actually in terms of the number of scientists, the largest programme at IRI, we have more than 30 scientists involved in this project, in this programme in many different disciplines. We deal with primarily intensive rise systems that are typically fully or at least partially irrigated. There's about 80 million hectares of those in Asia. The average yield of rise in these systems is about 5.4 tonnes per hectare, although they account for roughly about 75% of the global rise production. The big challenge that we have in these systems is that we need to keep increasing yields at a rate of about 1% a year to secure enough cheap rise for primarily the net consumers of rice, including a large number of rural, landless poor and urban poor, but at the same time also increase the productivity and the resource efficiency of many inputs to save resources, conserve resources and increase the profitability and therefore income and livelihood improvement for the farmers that manage irrigated rice fields. We look in Programme II at a whole range of different strategies that all need to be applied in the same context. We have a large component, particularly in Output I in our programme, that is primarily geared towards breeding. So the entire irrigated rice breeding programme, both inbred breeding and hybrid rice breeding, belongs into this output and our main targets there are the continuous release or production of advanced inbred lines and hybrids, particularly hybrid parent lines to both the public and the private sector and those varieties and hybrids need to have both high yield potential and a wide range of resistances to abiotic and also some abiotic stresses. What you see here in the background is one of the major experiments for this particular purpose. So we are studying here a whole range of management practices and their impact on the entire global warming potential of rice systems. So we have here treatments in there that represent the conventional double cropping flooded puddled rice system, but we also have systems that represent the future like what you see here, water saving irrigation in which we keep the field surface free from standing water for most parts of the growing season. Hybrid rice is one of the key technologies that we see will have to contribute substantially to revitalising the slow down yield growth rates of rice in Asia in the irrigated environments, but probably also in some of the favourable rain-fed and lowland environments in the future. We have officially established a hybrid rice research and development consortium as a unique public and private sector partnership that includes IRI as a convening centre, 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. So I'm optimistic that the challenging goals that we have can be achieved, but they will require a substantially higher level of research and development investment to counterbalance some of the decline that we have seen in this area in the last 10 to 15 years.