1.4 Billion $ INVESTMENT, NOW OUR AGRICULTURE SECTOR WILL BOOST

[Fledgingwings]

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Whatever you do, Pak Friends, but NEVER let the GMO poison come to your lands.

Work with China on full supply chain of agri sector... from seed to harvest. But don't poison your people with GMO.
It will destroy the entire ecosystem, from insects to birds to subsoil lifeforms.

Please, don't make this mistake!

 

[imadul]

Sad to read about how Monsanto hurts Indian farmers! I don't know much about GM tech so no comment on the seed, but I do know seed is Monsanto's main business. Do note Syngenta's main business is agrochemicals, not seed, see below 2015 revenues of sectors by companies. Through introducing agrochemical technologies, I do hope this $1.4 billion investment by ChemChina-Syngenta can boost agriculture sector of Pakistan.

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https://seekingalpha.com/article/3960120-monsantos-plan-b-buy-bayer-cropscience

I am totally against GM seeds both for india and Pakistan. Both have given up local seed and agri research in favor of multi nationals even have adopted artificial tech. Cattle given harmones produce more pus in milk, not suitable for consumption. Very sad and bad situation.

Whatever you do, Pak Friends, but NEVER let the GMO poison come to your lands.

Work with China on full supply chain of agri sector... from seed to harvest. But don't poison your people with GMO.
It will destroy the entire ecosystem, from insects to birds to subsoil lifeforms.

Please, don't make this mistake!

Now there is an easy method to edit genome using CRISPR, china already using it in animals. Human race is destined to pay the price and then force of nature will intervene and wipe out a lot of poison from the earth. Only after that earth will turn back to the fertility of last ice age.

 

[Slav Defence]

Well, that is my topic of interest.
There are two ways to get your cultivar of interest by gene manipulation:
1)Artificial Selection
2)Methods like micro-injection or electroporation that involves cutting of specific gene segment, using viral vectors etc (in easy words)

Humans have been performing artificial selection for centuries as a result of which you are getting hexaploid wheat today.The chapatti your spouse is serving you with great love and affection is a result of centuries old attempt to have wheat of finest texture or else you will be served with either grass or food which is now a days used as animal fodder.Similarly modern day dogs can also be considered as a result of artificial selection.
In agriculture, farmers can improve their plants naturally by selecting plants of their desired trait and then breed it with their plant. Continuous breeding for successive generation could eliminate the trait they don't want or could reduce it to some extent and may introduce the trait they desire.It's just like you marry a blonde and so your generations.Till then a time will come that your great grandchildren will start to show up either colored eyes or light brown wavy hair

Gene manipulation is always a risky business .In this case you are not playing up with proteins but with instruction manual of organisms.If I try to play with any computer software's java code then we can imagine of consequence.Same goes with gene.
So when biotech is directly involved in gene manipulation which means there are risks at every step.The biggest risk is that how successfully modified organism will affect upon the naturally built environment, soil type and most prominently it may succeed in fulfilling it's purpose on one hand but on other hand how nature is itself gonna respond i.e giving rise to super weeds and insects if plant is pest resistant or any other thing.Yes, birds could be affected as well.
However, gene manipulation has shown immense benefits. I would encourage you all to look into Green Revolution and to remember Norman Borlaug who helped India and Pakistan during immense need and his magic seeds helped us to get wheat with medium size in length and tillers with greater seeds hence saving more seeds or else there would be huge wave of starvation with which both the nations would have suffered badly.There are other good advantages as well but you as a client must have knowledge, expertise and brains to run some test trials before introducing any product in your soil.
Other than that Monstanto has always been portrayed as big player and US economy gets great advantage from it.So, think a tons as an economists, as biotechnolgist and as geneticist or agriculturist , as villager etc.

regards

 

[Shotgunner51]

Now there is an easy method to edit genome using CRISPR, china already using it in animals. Human race is destined to pay the price and then force of nature will intervene and wipe out a lot of poison from the earth. Only after that earth will turn back to the fertility of last ice age.

Perhaps you mean BGI (previously knows as Beijing Genomics Institute)? Their DNA tech is aimed at biomedical objectives, not agricultural. Same with other DNA tech titans like Novogene (founded in 2011 by former BGI executive Ruiqiang Li), WuXi AppTec (WuXi NextCode), WuXi PharmaTech and Cloud Health, all of them have strategic goals set on precision medicine and biomedical applications. See Nature link below:

China’s bid to be a DNA superpower
First China conquered DNA sequencing. Now it wants to dominate precision medicine too
http://www.nature.com/news/china-s-bid-to-be-a-dna-superpower-1.20121​

 

[imadul]

Perhaps you mean BGI (previously knows as Beijing Genomics Institute)? Their DNA tech is aimed at biomedical objectives, not agricultural. Same with other DNA tech titans like Novogene (founded in 2011 by former BGI executive Ruiqiang Li), WuXi AppTec (WuXi NextCode), WuXi PharmaTech and Cloud Health, all of them have strategic goals set on precision medicine and biomedical applications. See Nature link below:

China’s bid to be a DNA superpower
First China conquered DNA sequencing. Now it wants to dominate precision medicine too
http://www.nature.com/news/china-s-bid-to-be-a-dna-superpower-1.20121​

No, i was referring to CRISPR, latest and easiest technique (a/c to experts) to edit genes.
Chines are the first to use this technique to mutate human embryo.
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ispr-gene-editing-of-normal-embryos-released/

Any gene editing is possible with CRISPR human, animal and plant.

 

[Shotgunner51]

No, i was referring to CRISPR, latest and easiest technique (a/c to experts) to edit genes.
Chines are the first to use this technique to mutate human embryo.
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ispr-gene-editing-of-normal-embryos-released/

Any gene editing is possible with CRISPR human, animal and plant.

Agree, I remember discussing with another member about impact of robotics revolution on China, let me quote myself:

"You have every rights to be vigilant about impact of disruptive technologies on our lives, in fact we all should as human, on unknown techs such as cloning, DNA tech, etc.".
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/its-...-in-the-workforce.424300/page-19#post-9490257​

But then agrochemical tech has been persisting for many decades if not centuries, human constantly use chemistry to preserve crops, fight natural threats and boost agricultural productivity. Instead of saying agrochemical is a disruptive tech, let's say it's a progressive process, and that's main business of ChemChina-Syngenta.

 

[saba shahid]

Yeah it is a good news but dont say like boost man a billion dollar is nothing in such big field lmao