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With the time passing, the earth's resources are decreasing. The earth's capacity to continue providing clean air and water, productive soils and a rich diversity of plant and animal life isn't as before, but it's moving in an opposite direction. Population growth is already straining the earth's resources. One of the few certainties of the future that the world's population will nearly double, reaching almost 10 billion inhabitants by the year 2030. This pushed us to find the solution for this and there was no other than agricultural biotechnology to be the desired solution and the hope for us.

              Experts assert that using biotechnology in agriculture will triple crop yields without requiring any additional farmland, saving valuable rainforests and animal habitats. Also, it can reduce or eliminate reliance on pesticides and herbicides that may contribute to environmental degradation.

              In the past, the humankind has made improvements to crop plants through selective breeding and hybridization, the controlled pollination of plants. Then with the discovery of the DNA and the possibility of cutting a specific piece of it and stick it in another DNA thread, the agricultural biotechnology took place in the world of agriculture.

             the difference between agricultural biotechnology and the traditional plant breeding is that the agricultural biotechnology allows the transfer of a greater variety of genetic in a more precise, controlled manner.

            For more explanation traditional plant breeding involves the crossing of hundreds or thousands of genes, where as agricultural biotechnology allows the transfer of only one or few desirable genes. This allows plant breeders to develop crops with specific beneficial trait sand without undesirable traits.

          So agricultural biotechnology allowed us to supply the crops with desired traits that fight plants pets. insects, weeds and diseases not only this but also supply it with traits that provide quality improvements, such as tastier fruits and vegetables, processing advantages such as tomatoes with higher solids content, and nutrition enhancements, such as oil seeds that produce oils with lower saturated fat content.

         To sum up, agricultural biotechnology is important to our life in the present and the future and so we should try to improve this science and highlight it in order to provide good living for people.

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