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1. USA, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and Japan are using gene editing at their farms as per their country regulations.
2. Gene-editing is cheaper, faster, simpler and safer to develop and grow more nutritious varieties like gluten-free wheat, disease-resistant sugar beet and potatoes.
3. Genetically modified (GM) organism technology is expensive where crops entire genes or even groups of genes are transferred between species.
4. Gene-editing merely involves making slight changes to existing genes in a plant.
5. Gene editing are considered as safe as traditional plant breeding techniques.
6. Genetic changes used by plant breeders are mutations that arise spontaneously and randomly in crop plants.
7. In gene editing, genetic changes are targeted precisely and there is only a small or non-existent background.
8. Wide use of gene editing of crops could give a key advantage in agriculture and in the food industry to overcome food insecurity
9. Allowing gene editing in research program is a way of speeding up the natural methods of farm breeding to ensure improvement of environmental and nutritional outcomes of feeding ever-expanding human population
10.Gene-editing technology would be a big step to meet agricultural challenges if adopted by government in a right direction.
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