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Agricultural Biotechnology

Agricultural Biotechnology is the use of biotechnology to improve agricultural components, such as soil and plants, and enhance and develop animals for agricultural use. It also provides cheaper and more effective tools for farmers to improve their farming experience and outcomes.

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Environmental factors cause damage to animals, plants, and seeds, thus impacting farmers and their farming experience and consumers. Through biotechnology, and more specifically through understanding the DNA, scientists developed solutions to:

Productivity

Increase agricultural productivity

Crops

Enhance breeder’s ability to improve crops and livestock

Species

Enable improvements for species’ lives

Consuming

Better outcomes for consumers

Benefits of Agricultural Biotechnology

Better yield and harvest regardless of weather conditions

Makes both insect pest control and weed management safer and easier

More profit by inventing new efficient and effective tools

Protect Crops from devasting diseases

As biotechnology evolves and scientists find new ways to explore its respective fields, its benefits abound. More specifically, agricultural biotechnology helps the environment in a number of ways. Because food is an important resource for survival, improving the source of food is a major outcome of agricultural biotechnology.

First, agricultural biotechnology helps with increasing crop productivity by introducing qualities such as disease resistance and increased drought tolerance to the crops. Also, researchers can select genes for disease resistance from other species and transfer them to crops.

Crop protection is another important benefit, as agricultural biotechnology supports researchers and engineers in developing tools and solutions to that end. For example, cost-effective pest management solutions could be developed for crops such as corn, cotton, potatoes, and other vegetables and fruits.

This can be accomplished through merging agricultural biotechnology with genetic engineering to understand and make proteins that kill certain insects when they feed on the plants. Such solutions not only improve crops but also the productivity and experience of farmers.

Among the ways agricultural biotechnology benefits consumers is through enhancing the nutrition value of products. Monitoring nutrition value and data is becoming the norm for recent generations. People care about the food they eat, and some watch their diet to become fit and healthy. There are solutions in this field that can give food better value, flavor, and texture. In current trials of improving flavors, scientists are working on increasing the activity of plant enzymes that transform aroma precursors into flavoring substances.For fresher goods, genetic engineering plays an important role to prevent damages and loss of nutrients.

Applications in the Field

Vaccine Development

Develop wide ranges of vaccine in cheap and reliable ways and in mass production

Fortification of Crops

The fortification of nutrients to enhance the nutritional status of crops, developed by genetically modified organisms

Improve Yield

Biotechnology is the best technology to combat various food yield problem

Enzyme Blend

The production of food is done by developing the technique of producing organisms through genetically modification. These enzymes contain carbohydrases and proteases. The maximum production could be achieved by the cloning of genes for these in the minimum time period. These enzymes are specifically used for producing curd, cheese, and flavoring items of food.