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How GM Crops are Creating Better Yield and Higher Quality Crops
India needs to increase the production of essential food items like edible oils for its approximately 1.4 billion people, the second-largest population in the world. The previous fiscal year saw India spending a record $19 billion on vegetable oil imports. Before...
The Potential Impact of CRISPR on the World’s Food Supply Chain
Since the 2000s, floods have multiplied four-fold, and droughts have surged by over a third in a generation. Experts have predicted for a long time that crop failures can be aggravated by climatic variability, potentially leading to food shortages. This threat is...
Gene Editing Can Help Generate Resilient Crops in Response to Climate Change
Our environment is a delicate balance of biodiversity and climate that respond of human interventions. Agriculture is most impacted by any changes in this balance and contributes the most to the environmental changes. Agriculture systems have been facing new...
Building a Sustainable Global Food Supply Chain with Smart Agricultural Practices
We don't just eat to stay alive; food decides our way of life and daily lifestyle. However, how we now produce food can impact the environment by polluting land and water, hastening climate change and the biodiversity, and decreasing the productivity of our farms and...
Enhancing India’s Post-harvest Supply Chain Infrastructure Can Help Minimize Food loss in India
India has made significant progress toward being a self-sufficient food producer after being a net food importer in the 1960s. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that India is the second-biggest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnuts,...
Importance Of Soil Microbiome In Conservation Of Food Ecosystem
Farmers have always strived to improve the soil's chemical and physical properties, so that diverse nutrients are available to plants, soil retains more moisture, and plant root growth is facilitated. However, farmers might have overlooked the importance of the...
The International Plant Treaty is helping in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources
Over the past 10,000 years, agriculture has withstood moderate climatic changes due to the diversity in species, varieties, and cultivation techniques. The early farmers chose to cultivate plants that produced big, edible seeds, even without knowledge of genetics....
GENE EDITING TECHNOLOGY IS BEING EMBRACED BY COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE GLOBE
The pandemic and the Ukraine conflict have brought to light massive food shortages that are only expected to worsen. According to the World Bank, the world will need to increase food production by 70% to 100% in the next 50 years due to population growth, changing...