RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice

Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by BiteCode_dev on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:37AM (#28405601)

Unless human nature has changed last week, this is not going to be used to use less land, only to produce more on the same land.

We are already overproducing food, that doesn't prevent us to try to produce more.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by postingawayonhn on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:37PM (#28407091)

There has to be demand for that produce. The market ultimately decideds how much food we need to grow.

Where I'm from (New Zealand) there are various schemes in place to encourage farmers to retire low productivity land and fence/plant buffer zones around waterways.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by necovek on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:31PM (#28409033)

Humans are pretty good at creating excessive demand (it's what lots of marketing is about).

With food: "oh, this apple has scratch marks from insects, throw it in the bin" — this is just one of them. "Best before" dates in the past results in lot of untasted food go to waste too. Etc.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by BiteCode_dev on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:32PM (#28408377)

Again, we are already producing more than the demand, we just don't distribute it to all the demand.

The market, at this point, has produced concentration of power and hasn't sold distribution problem.

Creating something that can produce even more is not gonna help.

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