Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 24: Senior Prof and Coordinator working in SKUAST Jammu and President Society for Plant Research Dr RK Gupta delivered plenary lecture on Food and Biotechnology: Nutritional Dilemmas in the national conference on “Perspectives and Trends in Plant Sciences and Biotechnology” held at Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Prof Gupta advocates that sustainable intensification of agriculture is must in different agro ecological situations for future food security and safety to environment. This goal can best be achieved by judicial blending of traditional technologies with frontier technologies (including sensible biotechnology) with focus on irrigated and rain fed areas, coarse cereals horticultural crops and livestock. By 2050, production needs to be doubled through sustainable intensification model that is safe to environment and socially acceptable.
The proposed model for attention of policy makers, planners and scientific community has focus on developing varieties/hybrids/transgenic that help increasing production at least by 25 per cent from current levels in different agro ecological situations, developing/refining matching production technologies that increase production at least by 25 per cent from current level under different agro ecological situations, developing varieties and technologies that use at least 20 per cent a fewer natural resources, promoting processing and value addition while reducing wastage between 20-30 per cent and involving rural women and youth (around 50 per cent) in sustainable intensification efforts.
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