Genetically Modified Crops
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Genetically Modified Crops
- 2. About • Plants, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques, to resist pests and agents causing harm to plants and to improve the growth of these plants to assist in farmers efficiency. • Genetic engineering offers a rapid and precise method of altering organisms as compared to traditional methods that are slow and inaccurate. Profits • Enhanced taste and quality • Reduced maturation time • Increased nutrients • Higher yields • Higher stress tolerance • Improved resistance to disease, pests, and herbicides • New products and growing techniques • Drought tolerance • Increased food security • Help stomp out famine Risks • Potential human health impacts • Domination of world food production by a few companies • Bio-piracy • Tampering with nature by mixing genes among species • Labeling Not mandatory in some countries • Introducing allergens and toxins to food • Adversely changing the nutrient content of a crop
- 3. India approved Bt cotton in 2002 and within a few years yields were up dramatically. Most of the yield increase happened between 2002-5 when Bt comprised between 0.4-5.6% of India‟s cotton. In the last 4 years, as Bt has risen from 67% to 92% of India‟s cotton, yields have dropped steadily. Since 2007, yields in AP have dropped back to below where they were before farmers started adopting Bt cotton.
- 12. 10-year moratorium on field trials of Bt food crops A panel of scientists, qualified in evaluation of the biosafety data of GM crops, has been engaged for scrutiny and analyses of the safety data. until an independent assessment has evaluated its “impact” and “suitability” Requirement for preliminary biosafety tests
- 13. Labelling of GM Food From January 1, 2013 all packaged foods containing any genetically modified (GM) organisms must be labelled as such. Many food products in India are either derived from, or processed in, countries where a large majority of the crops cultivated are GMOs Every package containing the genetically modified food shall bear at the top of its principal display panel the letters 'GM'. People may confuse it as an acronym for 'gram„ India also does not have any labs to test GM ingredients in processed food
- 16. Metrics 2% Intermedi ate 6% Under Graduate 52% Post Graduate 40% Male 80% Female 20% 15-18 6% 19-23 83% 24-28 10% above 41 1% Gender Ag e Educatio n GM Food: Summery of Responses
- 17. Do you know what Genetically-Modified (GM) food is? Yes 76% No 24% Yes No
- 18. To what extent do you accept GM food? I love it! 9% Its ok. 60% accept if no other option 29% I hate it! 2% I love it! Its ok. accept if no other option I hate it!
- 19. Growing GM foods is environmentally safe? Strongly agree 8% Agree 30% Neutral 36% Disagree 22% Strongly Disagree 4% Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
- 20. What do you think about the importance of labelling GM food? It must be 37% It should be 34% Doesn't matter 24% Of no use 5% It must be It should be Doesn't matter Of no use
- 21. Which of the following terms have you heard about? 97 46 97 93 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 CLONING TRANSGENIC HYBRIDIZATION GENETIC ENGINEERING
- 22. If you see that a food is labelled "genetically modified", would you still buy it? Yes 60% No 40% Yes No
- 23. Which of the following types of GM food do u accept? 61 21 71 65 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 CLONING TRANSGENIC HYBRIDIZATION GENETIC ENGINEERING
- 24. GM food will overtake the non-GM counterparts as the majority? Strongly agree 9% Agree 39% Neutral 33% Disagree 15% Strongly Disagree 4% Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
- 25. GM crops would save world hunger? Strongly agree 12% Agree 49% Neutral 30% Disagree 5% Strongly Disagree 4% Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Editor's Notes
- When we talk about environment...Things which come to our mind is trees, plants, animals etc.So plants n trees, we all know these are the main food resources for human beings.But when we humans apply science & engineering in this field... the result we get is genetically modified crops, we have already discussed the effects of these crops on human health & environment in previous presentation.In this part first we are summarising the things from previous presentation. Then we are going to discuss the scenario of GM crops in India. Effects of GM crops on Indian agriculture & necessity of labelling of products containing GM crops.Also we conducted an online survey to know the general attitude towards the genetically modified food.
- This graph shows the net export & import of cotton in India from 2002 to 2009. As we can see from the graph that before adoption of BT cotton India was deepened on other countries for cotton, but from 2003 onwards the scenario was completely changed & graph of export is touching the new heights…
- After ban on GM field trials, another important decision was taken in this direction is labelling of GM food products. To ensure that the public has a clear choiceOn the very first day of this year, Indian government made GM food labelling compulsory because many food products in India came from other countries where GM crops are very common. BUT right now this is not very successful and no proper rules of labelling has been defined as such. People can misunderstand the letters GM as gram. So this is not the right way of labelling.Also we don’t have any facility in India to test if a product is having GM contents or not. So this also increases the complexity of this rule.
- In our society, to estimate the awareness & attitude towards genetically modified food, we conducted an online survey with help of google forms.Our questionnaire has question like how much people know about GM food and up to what extent they are concern about the food they are getting. We targeted our friends on social networking sites for this purpose. We sent them the link of the form and requested them to fill that.
- We started collecting responses from about one month ago & till now we have collected a total of 127 responses. As you can see this is a large list, so it is not possible to analyse all of the responses one by one. Hence we are showing here the summarised results of the responses we collected so far.
- First of all let us summarise about people who responded us,Out of 127 people who responded, 102 are males & 25 are females. Coming to the age groups- 104 are of age group 19-23 and 13 are of 24-28 years. Next we see education part- 65 are under graduate students & 51 are post graduate students.So we can say that our results are based on responses of young population of India. & most of these are from engineering background.
- Our very first question was… Do you know what Genetically-Modified (GM) food is? In reply to this question 1/4th of the people said that they don’t know what is this GM food.It is of no surprise for me that they don’t know about this because I also didn’t know much about GM food before working on this project. But a good thing is that 74% of people know the meaning of GM food.
- As according to the results we can see most people are ok with the GM food. This shows a high acceptance level of GM food among youth. But this result also may be like this because either they don’t know the real meaning of GM food or they are unaware of the risks involve in this.
- Now this is an interesting result. 38% of people are in favour that GM food is environmentally safe. only total of 26% are against this. Rest 36% are neutral about this. This result is against the well known fact that there are a lot of risks are involved with GM crops cultivation. So this is quite obvious that youth do not know much about the environmental risks involved in cultivating GM crops.
- What do you think about the importance of labelling GM food? As a good consumer 69% of people thinksthat there should be a proper label if products have any GM contents. But 31% also don’t care about labelling & take this as useless. This shows that they are either not much concern or unaware of the risks with GM food.