Bill Gates talks bananas, down under

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BILL Gates has gone bananas over Australian crop scientists and farming technology. The world's second richest man has backed a "groundbreaking" biotechnology research project through researcher Professor James Dale at the Queensland University of Technology. Professor Dale is working to produce vitamin A enriched bananas for production in sub-Saharan Africa, with a $10 million contribution from the Gates Foundation. Professor Dale attended the Press Club lunch in Canberra last month and also met with Bill and Melinda Gates in December 2011,to discuss progress of his field trials at Innisfail, North Queensland.