ISLAMABAD - Experts believe that biotechnology is necessary for developing countries as in the given international circumstance, it can help in improving standard of farmers living and to ensure food security that is big future issue for most of the countries.
During a workshop on “International Perspective about the Future of Biotech Crops”, International Services for the acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) experts Dr Mariechel J. Navarro and Rhodora R. Aldemita said that it was need of the time to teach people about the future technologies and its benefits.
The workshop was organised by Agriculture Journalists Association Lahore to explain the needs and importance of biotechnology amongst opinion makers. The members of agriculture journalists association Lahore and Capital’s agriculture journalists attended the event.
Mariechel J. Navarro from Philippines said that many countries were using biotechnology and every one can see results. She gave the example of Brazil that used the technology and its growth is highest among the developing countries. She described the Myths & Realities of Genetically Modified Crops as well and revealed the facts regarding food ingestion, horizontal gene flow, gene transfer to human causing disease, gene flow to weeds, cross pollination, effect on non target organism, loss of biodiversity and safety of water, soil and air.
Mariechel also presented the test case of biotech crops’ adoption in her own country and explained the role of media in the promotion of new technology. She described the role of Philippine’s media regarding biotech crops and revealed that fact of effective communication as most important tool in capacity building. To meet the challenges being faced by today’s agriculture in developing countries like Philippine and Pakistan, biotech crops offer a sustainable solution and there is dire need of commercialising the crops to counter food insecurity. 
ISAAA’s biotech expert Rhodora R. Aldemita while explaining the need for biotech crops said that due to mega influx in human population, use of new technology has become the need of the hour and only technological development can prevent the world especially developing countries from food insecurity. While talking about the application of biotech crops, she mentioned that 29 countries are currently using biotech crops and getting sustainable growth in their agriculture sector.
While responding different questions, ISAAA experts explained that biotech crops can bring huge deduction in the expenses and farmers can achieve healthy production by using less labour than organic crops. Experts said that farmers should be the decisive authority to choose best suited option for sustainable production but should be educated regarding new technologies to decide.