Comparison of the efficiency of traditional plant breeding with genetic engineering

In many poor countries, the so-called Third World, changes in agriculture is a moral necessity to reduce poverty and starvation and as a result, to establish the justice. Developing countries, where half of the population is engaged in agriculture, have the lowest income and highest rate of population growth. Plant breeding cannot lonely solve the problem of supplying enough food for the current population and millions of people that are yearly added to it. In addition, many problems, including high use of pesticides, loss of biodiversity and low efficiency threatens our food security. By eliminating the barriers of conventional plant breeding, genetic engineering provides the use of genetic resources for plant breeding and plays a significant role in preserving biodiversity and supplying food for the world. The purpose of this article is to compare transgenic crops with those products that obtained through conventional plant breeding and to evaluate the economic and environmental aspects related to transgenic crops.