As a result, there will be a need to develop crop varieties with greater drought tolerance.

Season extension techniques are most effective when combined with crop varieties selected for the extended growing conditions.

If you want to grow a new crop variety, you pay for the genes.

The company has close to 7.6 million acres of land that covers around 30 crop varieties.

This also leads to a slow erosion of crop varieties that have been planted for centuries.

In addressing the food crisis long term, what role can traditional agricultural knowledge and indigenous crop varieties play?

Biotechnology is often a lab activity requiring field testing of the new crop varieties that are developed.

The companies have billions of dollars invested in new crop varieties.

It established global networks to test experimental crop varieties.

Drought conditions in Australia have forced the authorities to search for alternative crop varieties.