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.

It is believed by most of the people that genetically modified

crops

should be considered by developing countries to counter the fast-growing population. The advancements in the field of biotechnology have made it possible to increase the

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productivity

of

crops

by genetic methods.

This

essay discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using

this

approach.

Firstly

, the obvious advantage that can be seen here would be the high yielding capacity of the genetically altered

crops

, which parallelly takes significantly less time to grow and gives high productivity as well.

For example

, a developing country like India with an enormous population

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has seen development in productivity in the

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agricultural

sector in the past for more than a decade, which was revolutionised by Swaminathan an agro-scientist, father of "Green Revolution" in India, since introducing the methodology to yield genetic variant of

crops

.

As a result

, the

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government

was able to help the needy by introducing

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food

schemes where

food

will be either free of cost or at a subsidised cost.

Secondly

, it is a known fact that for every issue there will be disadvantages associated with advantages and vice-versa. A notable disadvantage of

this

approach to

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artificially grown

crops

would be malnutrition. Nowadays, few organizations in

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to gain profits tend to grow

crops

with some hazardous chemicals or fertilisers.

For example

,

Food

committee established by the

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Indian

government has sealed a couple of organizations because in a test conducted it was found that few people were affected when they consumed

food

products which were produced from these

crops

. In a nutshell, on one side of the heated argument are people who firmly believe that GM

crops

pose a threat to human health. On the other side are mainly scientists who are convinced that genetic engineering of plants represents a technology with enormous potential for increasing crop in an environmentally benign way.

This

controversy has to dissolute in order to find ways of using

this

technology in the safest possible manner.