What is Green Biotechnology? What is the role of biotechnology in ensuring food security?
Structure:
Introduction: (up to 30 words) Explain Green Biotechnology in brief
Body: (up to 100 words) Explain the various applications of Green Biotechnology and the effort to ramp up food production
Conclusion: (up to 30 words) Give suggestions to improve/deploy this technology in India
Supporting Points:
Green Biotechnology is considered to be the second stage of Green Revolution and is the use of genetically altered plants or animals to produce more environmentally-friendly farming solutions as an alternative to traditional agriculture, horticulture, and animal breeding processes.
Biotechnology can play a major role in bridging the supply-demand gap in food by raising input efficiencies.
Biotechnology improves crop insect resistance.
Enhances crop herbicide tolerance and facilitates the use of more environmentally sustainable farming practices.
Biotechnology feeds the world by generating higher crop yields with fewer inputs.
Lowers volumes of agricultural chemicals required by crops-limiting the run-off of these products into the environment.
Using biotech crops that need fewer applications of pesticides and that allow farmers to reduce tilling farmland.
Developing crops with enhanced nutrition profiles that solve vitamin and nutrient deficiencies.
Producing foods free of allergens and toxins such as mycotoxin.
Improving food and crop oil content to help improve cardiovascular health.
