Stop worrying about veggie prices: Use biotech to increase crop yield, fight food inflation

13 Sep 2011
2011 marks 10 years of Bt cotton, a successful GM crop. It's also been a year of high food inflation. That's a reminder: biotech can increase crop yield dramatically, and fight food inflation. Farmers are ready for reform, research is peaking. Now, government has to be smart and quick. What hyper-imaginative critics of farm biotechnology call Frankenstein food, or Frankenfood, is now the handiest solution to India's runaway food inflation. The debate on genetically modified (GM) food no longer runs along the monster or messiah lines: it clearly is a viable solution, but a lot will depend on where we go from here and how we leverage the technology.

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