Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have opened up new opportunities for growth in India’s seed and agricultural biotechnology industries.

Small-scale, resource-poor farmers in developing countries
face daily stresses, including poor soils, drought, and lack
of inputs. Ongoing trends such as climate change and
population growth will likely exacerbate binding stresses. A new
generation of genetically engineered (GE) crop research aims to
alleviate these pressures through the improvement of subsistence