A study on farmers' knowledge and attitude towards crops

Genetically Modified crops are the fastest adopted agricultural technology in the history of agricultural development. It is a promising, relevant, safe and efficient technology with low-input and high-output agriculture for crop improvement and agricultural development where conventional breeding tools have not been successful. It is an important technology to improve agricultural crops with desirable traits for their nutritional value, nutrient and water use efficiency, productivity, and tolerance/resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. (NAAS, 2017). It is 100 times folds from 1.7 to 190 million hectares since last two decade from 1996 to 2017 (ISAAA, 2017). Near about 18 millions of farmers from 24 countries are using Genetically Modified crops in 20 different crops with different desirable traits. Major crops in genetically modified are cultivated are Maize 31%, Canola 5%, Cotton 13% and Soyabean 50% respectively in the world. Top five countries are namely U.S.A (Soyabean, Maize and Cotton) with 75.00 M ha, Brazil (Soyabean, Maize and Cotton) 50.20 M ha, Argentina (Soyabean, Maize and Cotton) Canada (Soyabean, Maize, Canola, Sugarbeet, Alfaalfa and Potato) 18% and India (Cotton) 6% growing in 91.3% area of total 189.8 million hectare. Out of 67 G M adopted country 43 countries are importing G M crops and remaining 24 countries are growing it on commercial basis in that 10 from latin America with 79.4 M ha, 8 from Asia and pacific with 19.1 M ha, 2 from Africa with 2.9 M ha, 2 from European Union with 1.31 m ha in world.