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With rapid growth of world population, mainly in developing countries, the available cultivable land per person has declined ste
With rapid growth of world population, mainly in developing countries, the available cultivable land per person has declined ste
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2013-07-20
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With rapid growth of world population, mainly in developing countries, the available cultivable land per person has declined steadily since 1960 and will decease by half over the next 50 years. Besides, about 400 million women of childbearing age are iron deficient, leaving their babies exposed to various birth defects. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency. Tens of millions of people suffer from other major ailments (疾病)and nutritional deficiencies caused by lack of food.
How can biotech help? Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice that is fortified with beta-carotene (β胡萝卜素)and additional iron, and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where crop failures are caused by pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses or bacteria. Genetically modified, virus-resistant crops can reduce that damage, as can drought-tolerant seeds in regions where water shortages limit the amount of land under cultivation. Biotech can also help solve the problem of soil that contains excess aluminum, which damages roots and causes crop failures.
Many scientists believe biotech could raise overall crop productivity in developing countries as much as 25% and help prevent the loss of those crops after they are harvested. Yet for all that promise, biotech is far from being the whole answer. In developing countries, lost crops are only one cause of hunger. Poverty plays the largest role. Making genetically modified crops available will not reduce hunger if farmers cannot afford to grow them or if the local population cannot afford to buy the food those farmers produce.
Nor can biotech overcome the challenge of distributing food in developing countries. Taken as a whole, the world produces enough food to feed everyone—but much of it is in the wrong place. Especially in countries with undeveloped transport infrastructures, geography restricts food availability as dramatically as genetics promises to improve it.
Biotech has its own "distribution" problems. Private-sector biotech companies in rich countries carry out much of the leading-edge research. Their products are often too costly for poor farmers in the developing world, and many of those products won’t even reach the regions where they are most needed. Biotech firms have a strong financial incentive to target rich markets first to help them rapidly recoup (收回)the high costs of product development. But some companies are responding to the needs.
What can we learn from the last paragraph?
选项
A、Biotech is the only way to tackle world poverty and hunger.
B、The impact of genetic research on grain production is limited.
C、More collaboration is needed to deliver farmers biotech solutions.
D、Fears that biotech might be harmful to man are unfounded.
答案
C
解析
综合判断题。文章末段指出,生物科技自身面临着“分配”问题。许多尖端研究都是由富国的私营生物科技公司进行的。但这些新产品由于过于昂贵而无法交到贫穷农民的手中,所以人们应该加强合作,让农民能从生物科技成果中获利。故C)为答案。
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