The rate of change facing farmers today is truly incredible.
Biotechnology is another tool for farmers to utilize to bring abundance to America.
Without adequate food supplies at affordable prices, we cannot expect world health, or peace. Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States Biotechnology can give us a quantum leap forward in food security by improving disease and pest resistance, increasing tolerance to environmental stress, raising crop yields and preserving plant and animal diversity. The newer biotechnology techniques open up very great possibilities of rapidly improving the quantity and quality of food available. The use of these techniques does not result in food which is inherently less safe than that produced by conventional ones.