What is the future of agriculture and food engineering??

Question

i want to take an easy course and was wondering how this stream is...someone with knowledge pls reply...

Answer 1

The future is great and a little of it has been here for 15 years for me. As some one that has spent 50 years in some active part of agriculture I would have any farm land now with out it. I would have sold out long ago as cost forced the farmers out of business. While to me costs are important. The environmental benefits have been even greater.

Eighty percent of the US soybean crop is genetically modified.

While we were blind sided by the rejection by European greens of genetically modified corn and soy beans several years after they has stated selling them on the ground that not enough had been done to prove they were safe and all the nightmares they could dream up about genetically modified food posing some risk to balance of nature since they entered production in the USA in 1990 not one case of any kind of harm has held water.



In the case of the environment the no till crops that Monsanto's Round Up Ready cotton and soybean allow to develop have changed the face of farming in the USA. Stopping soil erosion cold. Cutting the use of fuel to raise a crop by 60 or 70%, actually increasing the organic matter in soils at a slow but steady rate that should at lest double the amount of organic matter in the soil over a 20 year period.

Genes that came from a bacteria that make a protein in plants toxic to most worms that bother them and the protiene is one of the leading pesticides used by organic farmers. The gene to make one or two of those proteins were spliced into crops so they expressed that toxic protein in the green material of the plant. The nice thing about it is everything but plant eating worms digest the protein just like any other if they eat any of it. The amount of insecticide for boll and bud worms sprayed on cotton has gone from once a week in some areas for 6 to 8 week to none at all or one or two for other insects that were getting killed along with worms.

In corn the same worm lays it eggs on the silk and the worm crawls down and eats the top out of the ear. And there is root borer that damages the roots lowering yields. The world spends 25% of the money is spend spraying cotton for worms. I don't know how much worms cost on corm but it is pobably more because more acres are planted.

And that's just the start. A root vegetable is just out that is reistant to the worm that causes famine in parts of Africa. That one will really make lives better.

Work is being done on making crops more nutritious, drought and salt tolerant and to make them into chemical and drug factories.

I would take the course but if it is an easy one it's either an over view course or not much of class.

I am 100% for the technology. I have seen work in most stages of the process and feel it safer than the methods we used to get traits we wanted into crops in the past.

There are those that have a few opposite mine. However, I have yet to anyone that understands agriculture and works in it and sees how GM crops work and how safe they oppose them on scientific or safety grounds.

Gordon

Answer 2

SYNTHETIC FOOD will take time to come.

Modern   AGRICULTURE  faces shortage of water, electricity and labour.(2) Artificially developed seed is costly and does not yield.

Agriculture is slowly dying

Answer 3

The Agriculture industry is growing more than ever these days.

like, they are producing products that boost and double the growth in a farm. such products as fertilizers and modified manure products.

http://bmrtarim.net provides some good info on the agriculture industry and how you should maintain the organic farming method.