Nutrition through biofortification

The benefits of the biofortified crops have been corroborated even by the actual impact assessment studies on children and women

Stark hunger, as manifested in starvation deaths, may be a thing of the past but malnutrition is still rampant. This is despite India being now the world’s top or second-largest producer of most food items, such as staple cereals, pulses, fruit, vegetables, and milk. The diet of a sizable section of the population is neither sufficient nor nutritionally balanced. The deficiency of protein, vitamins, minerals, or other major or micro-nutrients is widely prevalent. Particularly worrisome is the paucity of nutrients like iron and zinc, and vitamins like A and C, which are vital for growth and tissue repair, and preventing