With increases is world temperature, drought and famine are real possibilities. This year marks the hottest of record ever, Food production is one large contributor to global change, and use tremendous water and agricultural resources. Estimates in America suggest rampant waste of fresh fruit and vegetables occurs at rates of 35-40% or more. All of this could be mitigated by better chemical-free preservation techniques, such as food-irradiation. Possible disease and food poisoning and even cancer incidence could be substantially reduced if irradiation decreases liver toxic aflatoxins formation in stored grains or legumes, for example. All of these issues could be realized and should be explored. If addressed in the food supply chain along various points. Even the underserved or those with little refrigeration or freezing ability would benefit from long-term room temperature storage of very perishable produce, improving health and nutrition where available. We need to get over our fear or transient radiation exposure of exogenous dietary food resources and begin to address growing worod problems before it’s too late, MREs contingents fresh healthy palatable food could help in times of disaster if nothing more is considered. Let’s start the research and discussion .
@ Mark, I think in future Nanotechnology may play a major role for the solution to global worming and starvation. Specially biosynthesized nanoparticles can safely be used for seed treatment, sustainable water use, pest and disease detection and management, increase nutrient use efficiency, enhanced nutrient delivery and plant protection, remediation, reduced run off, increased quality and quantity of yields, stress tolerant of the crop, reduce cell damage, soil aggregation, C build up, temperature resistance, harmful gas ( e.g. CO2) absorption etc. Beside this, it can be used as food safety sensors, as well as food security tracers.
Bio-nano fertilizers are 30-100 times less required for optimum crop production than chemical fertilizers, 4-20 times more efficient, 2-4 times less costly as compared to chemical fertilizers. It also helps to control release of nutrients to match the crop uptake pattern, improve the solubility of native nutrient through more enzymatic action as well as duration of nutrient supply. It has the potential to improvement of crop yield over chemical fertilizer as well as maintenance of soil health like organic fertilizer. It has also been found that recommended doses of application has no adverse effect.
Please can you consult " FOOD IRRADIATION A N D ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS By K.F.MacQueen " ?
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