On the other hand, the challenges that confront the world's agriculture are expanding at an alarming rate. There is an immediate and critical need for new, environmentally safe pest control strategies that are less input-intensive. There is an immediate need for plants with greater drought and salinity tolerance. There is an immediate need for crops with enhanced nutrient content. There is also an immediate need for small, entrepreneurial biotechnology companies that can translate advances made in academic and governmental laboratories into tangible products and technologies for farmers and consumers.
Time is thus on the side of biotechnology in the longer term.
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