Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of
smallholder wheat farmers.
«Zinc - Shakthi, an early - maturing
wheat variety released in India in 2014 whose grain features 40 percent more zinc than conventional varieties, is already grown by more than 50,000
smallholder farmers in the Northeastern Gangetic Plains of India.»