03.07.2009 | permalink
Members of All India Crop Biotechnology Association (AICBA) Wednesday called for adoption of innovative technologies to boost crop productivity to meet food security needs. [...] AICBA director Sajiv Anand said, ”India must invest in agriculture biotechnology to increase productivity, produce more affordable and better quality food and improve farmers’ income. Growing adoption of GM crops could contribute to achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goal to help reduce poverty and hunger by half by 2050.”