Bill Gates-Backed Agricultural Researchers Get Funds from Carlos Slim Bloomberg News
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Why invest in wheat research? (CIMMYTint)

Carlos Slim, the world’s richest person, donated to a group supported by fellow billionaire Bill Gates that performs research for agricultural productivity.

Slim contributed research facilities that Mexico’s International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish initials as CIMMYT, will open this week, according to a a statement published today on his website and signed by Slim and Gates.

“The new infrastructure donated by the Carlos Slim Foundation will allow CIMMYT to apply its latest agriculture findings through the use of the most recent digital innovations,” the billionaires said in the statement. “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will assure that these practices, and the necessary resources to increase productivity, reach farmers in Africa and Southeast Asia.”

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To contact the reporter on this story: Crayton Harrison in New York at tharrison5@bloomberg.net

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