Asia: Headline
Gates Foundation: This grant continues to make steady progress against its key milestones and may be able to reach many more farmers than planned. This project is on track to exceed its goal of reaching 100,000 African and 300,000 Asian rice farmers with stress-tolerant rice varieties by the end of 2010. By 2017, we expect 20 million farmers, most of whom will be women, to benefit from these new varieties.

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