Biotechnology agriculture
1. What is Agricultural Biotechnology? Agricultural biotechnology is a range of tools, including traditional breeding techniques, that alter living organisms, or parts of organisms, to make or modify products; improve plants or animals; or develop microorganisms for specific agricultural uses.
Biotechnology has helped to increase crop productivity by introducing such qualities as disease resistance and increased drought tolerance to the crops. Now, research ers can select genes for disease resistance from other species and transfer them to important crops.
Can agricultural biotechnology improve food security?
Agricultural biotechnology has the potential to advance crop productivity production enhancement and improve food security at global level.
There is a growing alarm about the genetically engineered crops and its environment effects on food chain.
How does USDA support biotechnology?
USDA supports the safe and appropriate use of science and technology, including:
biotechnology to help meet agricultural challenges and consumer needs of the 21st century.
USDA plays a key role in assuring that biotechnology plants and products derived from these plants are safe to be grown and used in the United States. What is agricultural biotechnology?
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Agricultural biotechnology uses biological processes to develop technologies and products that address farming challenges.
In the face of a rising world population, the agricultural industry is seeking solutions for how to produce enough food to feed more people.
What is modern biotechnology?
These techniques are included in what is often referred to as "biotechnology" or "modern biotechnology." USDA supports the safe and appropriate use of science and technology, including:
biotechnology to help meet agricultural challenges and consumer needs of the 21st century.
Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade Program — The 2002 farm bill authorizes appropriations of up to $6 million annually for technical assistance and public and private sector project grants to remove or mitigate significant foreign regulatory nontariff barriers to U.
S. exports involving: agricultural commodities produced through biotechnology.
Funds can also be used to address trade-related food safety, disease, and other sanitary and phytosanitary trade concerns.
Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee
The House Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology is a subcommittee within the House Agriculture Committee.
It was first created during the 110th Congress as the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, though horticulture is no longer under its jurisdiction.
