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5 advantages of using biotechnology for agricultural development

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Answered by shraddhu2520
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Improvement in crop yields and selectivity in desired traits in plants/fruit & vegetables. This is necessary in countries where food production is very low.

Developing vaccines for preventable diseases. Targeted therapy for cancer treatment, Nano robots for cleaning plaque, for drug delivery for specific body parts is being studied.

Improvement in processes used in the industry. For example, using enzymes instead of chemicals makes the process ecofriendly and hence, less carbon footprint.

Producing energy efficient fuels and energy sources. Read about the microbial fuel cell.

Increased Food safety with anti-microbial packaging, detection methods for contamination, avoiding food wastage by various techniques.

Another interesting advantage is, use of microbes for cleaning up oil spills, for bioremediation purposes

Answered by Anonymous
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Agricultural biotechnology is also known as agritech is the study that involves biotechnology to agriculture.

This study mainly concentrate on the use of tools and techniques that includes molecular makers, vaccines. Tissue culture and genetic engineering to modify and improve the value of existing plants and animals.

Uses of biotechnology in agriculture-

1. It improves the value of existing plants.

2. It improves the nutrition quality of a plant.

3. It improves the production.

4. It reduces diseases in plants.

5. It reduced the costs on agriculture.

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