heyya guyz , can u plz give me the answer of # Mention any one benefit of biotechnology to the agriculture # This question is from 10th maharashtra state board , plz help me out frnds
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The use of biotechnology in agriculture does not only allow for crops to grow more and under more difficult circumstances, it can literally make them better. In other words, science now allows us to introduce specific genes to increase the nutritional value of the crops. This has been attempted with rice, one of the world’s most eaten food, where scientists used genetic engineering to produce rice rich in vitamin A. What scientists noticed is that while rice already contains the genes that produce vitamin A, these get turned off as the rice grow; so what the scientists did was to reverse that process so that the vitamin A genes get turned on
As such, agritech can help in resolving hunger but also malnutrition. This is therefore not a solution we can afford to ignore when so many hundreds of people, many young children, suffer from malnutrition.
What is more, supporters of agritech also believe that their technology can also reduce waste and optimise the food available to us in supermarkets. This is because genetically modified produce can be given properties that allow it to be harvested when ripe but then the ripening process can be stopped which means consumers can have access to fresher produce with a longer shelf life. This also minimises the amount of food that could go back before even reaching retailers.
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Bitechonology had proved useful in agriculture due to research on various fields like improvement in yield and variety of crops if done. Dude to such various research high yielding and diseases resistant varieties of crops is produced. BT cotton, BT Bringal, Golden rice are some of the fields in which a lot of biotechnological research is being done. Such crops are very popular in India. Use of organic pesticides has reduced the use of inorganic pesticides due to which the variety of crops is maintained.
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