Bio-technology is not only proving to be of tremendous help to the agriculture sector, but, the pharmaceutical sector is also gearing up to match the global inclination towards bio-tech products.
According to a report by Ministry for Science and Technology, India is the second largest food producer after China, and thus offers a huge market for biotechnology products.
Transgenics of rice,brassica, moonbean, pigeonpea, cotton, tomato and some vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower are already into field trials.
Some of these will be ready for large scale production by 2005. Protein-enriched wheat with a higher lysine content will be introduced in the farmer
