Bill Gates: We need innovation in Biotechnology
In an interview with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, Bill Gates said the world needed newer crops with increased productivity, better adaptability to changing climatic conditions and the ones that use less of insecticides. And these, he said, could only be made through innovations in agricultural biotechnology sector.
“Technology, properly applied, is the reason, if you like, why nine billion people can live on this planet without destroying it,” said Gates.
“There is a rice in India, that… even when it gets submerged under water, it survives. That is a fantastic example of technology helping the poor farmers… As the climate gets more challenging, in fact, we absolutely need crops that can deal with drought, that can deal with rain… We need to use science in the right way. If we just stick to what we have now, we would not be able to feed the growing population,” he said.
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