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Genetically Modified: GM crops – bonus or bane?
- Updated: August 11, 2016
The method of meridian change has given a immature light to dual multinational companies for commercialisation of a GM corns, that triggered widespread critique and concerns from a rancher village and experts. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: Experts are now debating either introduction of genetically mutated crops (GMCs) would assistance do nutritive mandate and urge rural capability – or lift with it uncalled-for inauspicious consequences if GMCs are introduced though following customary reserve measures.
The views were voiced during a brainstorming event on commercialisation of GMCs in Pakistan, organized by a Ministry of National Food Security and Research during a Pakistan Agriculture Research Centre (Parc).
Dr Muhammad Fahim, a biotechnology consultant and highbrow of Peshawar, warned that among many health implications, there would be inauspicious effects of GMCs on cultivation exports to European countries if these are adopted though compulsory ability and reserve measures.
“These countries are endangered in a matter and we might remove a good trade market,” he maintained. He combined that a instrumentation of GMCs was not damaging per se, though a miss of imagination on Pakistan’s partial to understanding with GM record was a means for concern.
Meanwhile, former Parc authority and pro-genetically mutated organisms (GMOs) scientist Kauser Abdullah pronounced that a GMO can boost a capability of famers and it could build toleration to biotic stress. He combined that GMOs will assistance revoke cost of prolongation and boost productivity. He serve pronounced that it will also boost nutritive calm in further to boost a capability of beef and milk.
The method of meridian change has given a immature light to dual multinational companies – Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer – for commercialisation of a GM corns, that triggered widespread critique and concerns from a rancher village and experts.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 12th, 2016.
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