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Indian farmers need help to feed over 1.5 billion people in 2030
1Mittur_Jagadish@yahoo.co.in
GM Crops & Food
|April 28, 2012
Abstract:
In view of the enormous challenge and pressure on farmers to feed 9 billion plus people and billions of animals who are going to be living in our planet in 2050, new technologies must be invented, assessed and adapted. Farmer welfare and provision of resources required for their work is of paramount importance. India has benefited from Bt cotton technology and will certainly benefit from other biotech crops that have been carefully developed and assessed for consumption and environmental safety.
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