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GM plants are useful in many ways. How would you convince farmers to grow GM plants on their field ? Explain giving three reasons.

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For farmers in the developing world, agrochemicals are often too expensive and further increase in yield with existing varities are not possible, so genetically modified crops is a possble solution as
-they make crops more tolerant to abiotic stresses,
-enhanced nutritional value of food e.g. Vitamin 'A' enriched rice,
-reduce make reliance on chemical pesticides.
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