Biotech can help combat climate changes
Climate changes aren’t something that will happen sometime in the future. They are happening now, and it seems that nothing can stop them. However, biotechnology could help.
Professor Kadambot Siddique from the University of Western Australia held a speech to the students at the Kerala Agricultural University at Vellanikkara in India, and said that biotechnology was not a solution to climate change — but an important and effective tool to combat climate change. “Many countries’ governments are investing heavily in the biotechnology sector, and that is good. Anything that can increase food production and optimise the use of water would be essential for fighting climate change in the coming years.”
He also said that the climate changes will probably be negative for India in the future, because Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on monsoon and irrigation.
Professor Siddique said that to make up the decline in food production, development of new high yielding, disease resistant and climate-adaptive crop species would be essential.
Source: expressbuzz.com
