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Impact of Climate Change on Plant Pest : How It can be Avoided?
With the current rate of extreme climate change globally, it will keep affecting the entire ecosystem and agricultural production worldwide. The impact of climate change can also be seen in the increase of plant pests, and it has a direct relation to international...
Innovation through gene-editing can address Climate Change
Climate change is a major challenge globally and like other sectors, agriculture too is hugely impacted. Incessant rains, drought and frequent pests and disease outbreak are all signs of the deteriorating effects of climate change. There’s a lot of work to be done in...
Biotech Cropscan helpto Conserve Biodiversity
Today, agriculture sector requires an approach that can bring sustainable changes in the practices of sowing, growing and harvesting crops. Crops grown through modern scientific intervention like biotechnology is one of the solutions to grow food sustainably. Using...
Why GMOs Are A Viable Solution to World Food Hunger?
Love them or hate them but you can’t ignore GMOs. They have the potential to increase yield, and qualities such as insect resistant or pest resistant provides quality produce and profits for farmers. People are still divided whether to eat GMOs or not and it is mostly...
Using crops and wetlands to absorb Carbon from atmosphere
Wolfgang Busch, a scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies is trying to harness the carbon-sucking power of plants in order to clean the atmosphere. The team is behind the initiative called Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI). It is an innovative approach...
Importance of Advances in Vegetable Cultivation
India is home to approximately 40 major and multitude local vegetable crops of varying significance. Vegetable growing is a labour-intensive job that also requires substantial amount of capital to be invested. In recent years, with deployment of latest technologies...
Genetically Modified Crops have Enormous Potential to Feed the World and tackling Hunger
Genetically Modified crops are being consumed for the past 25 years and have been beneficial to societies bycontributing to the food value chain, health and economic wellbeing of the farming community. The first GM tomato was licensed for cultivation in 1994. Since...
Robust Intellectual Property Rights leads to more technological innovations
Intellectual property plays a significant role in innovation and impacts economic growth at large. Today, we can see patent protected inventions in almost all the fields, especially those associated with technology. The role of intellectual property has evolved...