Can CRISPR technology help to feed the India?
Scientific India|November - December 2019
The way world is moving towards technology, time is not far that we will totally indulged into artificial complex lifestyle full of health complexities.
Can CRISPR technology help to feed the India?

Hidden hunger is an alarming global tsunami and controlling this in any manner is an affordable opportunity to improve the lives of more than half of the world population especially developing countries (UNICEF report, 2017). New developments are leading to rising carbon levels making food less nutritious which brings nutrition crisis. In the current scenario, the paradox is while the number of undernourished people has gone down by one-third in the last decade, but the malnutrition is increasing to an alarming ratio and this could be related to the increase in Co2 level.

Hunger around the world is rising again, high CO2 level is jeopardizing the progress made to end the scourge of food insecurity. Why rising carbon levels are bad for Indians as it is making rice and wheat less nutritious, putting millions at risk of malnutrition. The antinutritional effects and environmental implications has instigated numerous studies and aimed at how to stabilize the plant nutrition. Gene editing is the need to solve this incumbency of nutrition.

Currently India is well poised to become the third largest economy in the coming decades though it is still notorious for being undernourished facing the major challenge of hidden hunger. Although we boast that India is set to become the youngest nation by 2020 with a huge workforce of 64%, the reality is the hidden hunger, which may be due to the rising carbon dioxide (CO2). The time is come where we have to address the nutrition security than the food hunger. High carbon dioxide leads to lower concentration of protein, iron, and zinc in the crops. Cereals and lentils are most affected if grown under polluted environment. In India millions of people are facing nutritional deficiencies because of rise in carbon dioxide. Rising carbon dioxide making staple food such as rice and wheat less nutritious.

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