The future of world food production is
less about shipping boatloads of grain from port to port and
more about exporting improved seed that enables local farmers
to produce local crops to feed local populations.
The promise of agricultural
biotechnology includes the ability to solve production
problems for farmers all over the world. The delivery package
for those solutions is the seed.
Our challenge at ASTA is to foster an
international regulatory system that allows the free movement
of seed across local, state, and international borders. It is
not an easy task, but we will ultimately prevail as benefits
and safety of agricultural biotechnology are clearly
recognized.
