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In this age of biotechnology, genetic engineering, and the computer, a broad array of technologies is available to agricultural scientists to help them meet the most urgent problem of our time that approximately 450 million to 1 billion people are hungry and malnourished today, and that most of them live in countries where populations are destined to grow (1). At projected growth rates, the world’s population could reach 10 billion by 2030. Of this growth, 90% will occur in the poorest countries that already have a problem feeding their people (2). Although world food production is projected to increase more rapidly than the human population, most of the projected population increase will be in the developing countries where the population is increasing at the greatest rate and food production is either expected to remain the same or decline (3). |
