Ravinder Choudhary: 2 books

The agriculture sector has been successful in keeping pace with rising demand for food. The contribution of increased land area under agricultural production has declined over time and increases in production in the past two decades have been almost entirely due to increased productivity.

It is estimated that up to 100,000 plants, representing more than one third of all the world's plant species, are currently threatened or face extinction in the wild. Preservation of the plant biodiversity is essential for classical and modern genetic engineering plant breeding programmes.