Surely, our tomorrow will witness plants photosynthesizing with minimum help from the sun...

Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist)

Moreover, today’s tomatoes have a regulated ripening in order to increase their shelf life. The advent of golden rice today promises that each grain of rice is more rich in vitamin – things unheard of before in the history of land farming; and showing promise to help the poor and the underfed. Developments like onions sans tears, coffee sans caffeine have hit reality. Furthermore, cows today are injected with Bovine Growth Hormones to produce more milk. Fields at Kansas are getting prepared for the first batch of genetically engineered rice which will contain human genes. And food products from cloned animals are knocking on the doors to enter the food supply chain. It’s not only about genetically modified food; usage of technology has seen concepts like food irradiation that have stormed into our nutritional chain. Today, radiation is used to restore hygiene in the food products. Radiations like X-rays, gamma rays and electron beams are used to disinfect food products like meat & other food products.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007