I should teach the world not to be afraid of the genetic modification of our crops, and to accept genetically modified crops, as they can help to feed the growing world in an environmentally sustainable manner. There is much apprehension and confusion about this technology, especially in Europe. This has led to the needless slowdown of the application of biotechnology in agriculture.

If the world were to embrace genetically modified crops, then we could conquer hunger and poverty much more easily, cut down the use of chemicals on farms, help mitigate the cutting down of tropical forests to expand the area of agriculture, bring more reliability to farming, make farming more profitable, help developing countries through crops that are hardier and tolerant to drought, improve food safety and improve the nutrition of crops.

Genetically modified crops are as safe as conventionally developed crops - just more precise, and more familiar. The fear of this technology is unnecessarily holding back progress, and is denying the fruits of progress to the developing world, where progress is needed the most.

See Channapatna Prakash's website.