Populations in developing nations are rapidly growing, people now believe that we should turn to GM crops to increase the production of food grains. Discuss the Advantages and Disadvantages of this approach.

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Due to the fast growth of
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the number
of people in the underprivileged countries, citizens are moving towards the artificial method of growing crops to raise the
production
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of foodstuffs.
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of
grains which
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grains, which
are obtained within a short period in
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cost effective manner
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a cost effective manner
through genetic methods as the biggest merit.
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due to intake of genetic foods On one hand, the main advantage of genetic method is to produce food grains in short span of time and to be
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effective. As these are mostly pest resistant, loss of crops can be minimized,
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are
higher yields.
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, it requires a small area to grow mass crops which
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effective. Genetically modified crops can be produced in varied climatic conditions.
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, nowadays, watermelon, muskmelon which
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primarily summer fruits, are now available in all seasons.
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, genetic crops puts human health at risk. On consuming biotech foods, the people may suffer from immune problems and they fall sick easily.
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, people are suffering from allergies and cancer by consuming these biotech foods.
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, some farmers are
ignorant probably
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probably ignorant
about the modern farming techniques and may not able to follow the processes to ensure good crop
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and which will result in failure. To conclude, the benefits of using the genetic methods, provides higher
production
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of food grains in
shorter period
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a shorter period
of time and in a
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effective manner
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, these may cause severe health effect and due to ineffective use of modern technics farmers may fall monetary loss .
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