The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (UAS-Bangalore) have entered a collaboration to establish a maize doubled haploid (DH) facility at the Agricultural Research Station in Kunigal, India. The facility will have the potential to accelerate maize breeding and hybrid development, as well as increasing genetic gains through maize breeding, in Asia. Through the agreement, CIMMYT will establish and operate the facility, which will include field activities and the associated laboratory, with production estimated at 30,000 DH lines per year. CIMMYT plans for the facility to be operational by late 2019.