Chapter 9: Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

First and foremost a proper cattle management is necessary where light and air should be available. Then, the availability of food on the farm is considered. The time and amount of food given to the cattle are taken into consideration. It is important to have an arrangement of health care to look after the cattle and also to do the treatment of sick animals.

Migrating from one place to another is an important cause of globalization. So the chance of the rapid spreading of infectious diseases is more. The virus even can move from human to human; hence, it is transferred to healthy individuals at a very fast pace. Bird flu can transmit from organism to organism.

The blue revolution is related to aquatic plants and animals. There was a wide increase in the practice of aquaculture, to increase production. The blue revolution resulted in a major increase in the aquatic organisms and their products.

A beehive would have a large number of honey bees. The honey bee is the major pollinator of many plants. Thus pollination increases the seed production. This enhances the rate of pollination and increases the crop of plants.

Biofortification can be used to address both problems. It is a technique of breeding crops with higher levels of nutrients example vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats etc. It improves food quality also.

Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology (MOET) is used to improve the success rate of fertilization during artificial insemination in animal husbandry.

Germplasm collection is nothing but the collection of genes. The entire collection of plants or seeds having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is done. The benefit of this collection is to maintain diversity. The genes are collected and stored and hence then can be used for future needs.

Semi-dwarf: The height of the improved plant was neither too short nor too long, hence being semi-dwarf.

High yield: The yield of the improved wheat was very high as compared to the previous times.

Early maturity: Early maturity of the plant was necessary for high production.

Morphological features: Various plants have a certain hair-like structure in the stem and other parts of the plants, these features prevent insect pests and Biochemical features which provide resistance to the plants.

Dedifferentiation is the ability of the cells to lose as well as reverse the ability of differentiation. The plants have the ability to dedifferentiation and become meristematic again. Animals do not have this ability.