date:Jan 10, 2013
l breeding mucks about with the entire genome in a trial and error way.
He added: We are going to have to feed 9.5 billion hopefully much less poor people by 2050 on about the same land area as we use today, using limited fertiliser, water and pesticides and in the context of a rapidly-changing climate.
He said it has been estimated that there will have to be a 100 per cent increase in global food production to feed this increase in population.
To quote Norman Borlaug: I now say that the worl