Government always needs to maintain a public sector breeding program, and that includes the United Nations, which has done that. Suddenly we are starting to put a lot more resources into what I will call the science of agriculture and traditional breedings. But we have to have FAO and the United Nations with those centres. There's a rice centre, for example, in the Philippines. But yes, those technologies have been turned over for subsistence farmers.
On December 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.