If seriously pursued this can have implications for India’s food security says Shantaram who teaches plant
biotechnology and biotechnology innovation at Iowa State University in the United States. He was earlier executive direction of ABLE-AG, the association of crop biotech companies which supports this website.
Shantaram says there is no scientific evidence that organic is more nutritious and cites in support a meta-analysis of more than seventeen studies. Organic is a fad he says, and has been implicated in outbreaks of bacterial infections caused by the use of untreated animal manure.
Organic agriculture currently occupies about four percent of global agriculture and is being promoted as the panacea for the ills of modern agriculture. It is not, Shantaram says. ‘To believe that organic produce is healthier, more nutritious and environmentally benign is a false prophecy.’
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