BREEDING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Introduction
India’s population is
likely to reach 1.7 billion by 2050. Current rate of India’s food production
will be able to meet only 59% of the country’s food demand at that time. How
can India feed 1.7 billion people by 2050? This can be made possible by ‘Plant
breeding’ and ‘Animal husbandry’.
Plant breeding is the
art of developing economically important plants with superior quality.
Animal husbandry
involves the breeding of animals. It aims at improving the genotypes of animals
to make them more useful to the welfare of mankind.This emphasizes domestication
and propagation of animals,under controlled conditions to enhance food
production and food quality.
Another breakthrough was
the emergence of biotechnology as an entity of modern biology, which paved way
to develop advanced healthcare products, diagnostic kits and food production to
improve the quality of human life.
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