HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
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Improve quality of farm equipment.
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Decreased availability of productive land.
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Decreased food production and more debt for farmers.
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Increased food production and income for the farmers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How can using genetically engineered crops impact North Carolina’s economy? Improve quality of farm equipment. Decreased availability of productive land. Decreased food production and more debt for farmers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The direct economic activity generated by the human genetics and genomics industry exceeds $108 billion in 2019 and ultimately supports a total of more than $265 billion across the U.S. economy. Every $1.00 of direct human genetics and genomics activity generates an additional $1.45 in the U.S. economy.
Detailed explanation-3: -GMO crops have significantly increased crop yields and simultaneously decreased pesticide use. By doing these two things combined, we are producing more food with less inputs. Decreased use of pesticides, means less pesticide production demand and also less energy use on the farmers’ end, too.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most commonly introduced genetically engineered (GE) traits allow plants either to produce their own insecticide, reducing crop losses to insect damage, or to resist herbicides, so that herbicides can be used to kill many types of weeds without harming crops.