Agriculture: The next revolution

More than 40 years this population has doubled, while the amount of land / land that is available only gained about 10%. In fact the world's food needs that required every person increased by 25% for 40 years. How is this possible to feed so many people with only a small increase in land available?. Most of the productivity increase depends on the method of mating / breeding cross that was developed hundreds of years ago to produce plants and animals with specific traits. Recently however, new developments and the food is more productive has been accelerated by direct gene transfer. Transgene (gene transfer) is a plant (the transfer of genes into plants directly) enable innovation which is not possible with conventional hybridization methods. Some of the developments which have significant commercial potential, is a plant that produces / has its own pesticide, plants that have the ability to resist toxic items (anti-poison) and even bio-products such as vaccine plants. Because the transgenic protein is relatively easy to produce and yield or quality of protein is good, research and development that will come in this area is very bright / promising. For example, through classical breeding, the average strength of cotton fibers increased about 1.5 per year. How biotechnology has also dramatically speed up this step. By inserting a single gene, the strength of one variety of cotton increased by about 60%. Biotechnology for 19 years has transformed the agricultural industry. According to the United States Department of Agriculture in 2002, American farmers planted almost 80 billion (acres), corn and soybeans are genetically modified, 13% increase from the previous year. Of those, 74% of the soybean crop and 32% of the corn is genetically engineered to resist pests and herbicides. Corn and soybeans is the beginning of the biotechnology revolution, but many other plants that also play a role. Researchers have produced more than 40 kinds of transgenic crops, including tomatoes, tobacco, rice, glutinous rice, beans, tamarind, papaya, and others. Although the crop is only one aspect of the effects of biotechnology, they also become the focus of controversy in the wider world. Hunger continues to disaster, and the fact this is a very interesting argument for rapid development of the plants more productive and nutritious. However, some sectors that the research could be devoted to the environment and harm human health. The debate is far from the words "after". To develop an opinion, this decision makers to understand the science behind these new products, analyzing the product itself, and know the rules that exist to monitor biotechnology research. In certain problems, it is not possible if the revolution in agricultural biotechnology will stop. Protests or not, the results of biotechnology crops will have a key role in our society.