Bill Gates, Sustainable Agriculture Champion, Is America s Biggest Farmland Owner
On 1/16/21 at 12:09 AM EST
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland, making him America s biggest farmland owner. His investment in farming may be connected to his investments in climate change agricultural developments and Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products.
Gates 242,000 acres of farmland includes at least 100,000 acres of farmland in California, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, and 15 other states, according to a 2014
Wall Street Journal profile of Michael Larson. Larson, who manages the Gates personal portfolio and the holdings of the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helped coordinate the land purchases as one way to diversify the couple s profitable investments away from technology.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan On Monday inaugurated India s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Pneumosil , which has been developed by the Serum Institute of India Private Limited (SIIPL) in collaboration with partners like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As per an official release, recognizing SIIPL as the world s largest manufacturer of vaccines by number of doses and its contribution to India s economy, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that Serum Institute s vaccines are used in 170 countries and every third child in the world is immunized with the manufacturer s vaccine He reminded the audience that SIIPL developed and got the license of the first indigenous Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) from the Government of India during COVID-19 pandemic lock-down in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat , and also mentioned the extraordinary efforts of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in this endeavour to make India self-reliant in PC