Biofortified Crops Could Shift Indian Agriculture Toward Nutrition

For a long time, farmers and scientists worked mainly on growing more food.

India now has enough calories, but many people still do not get enough important nutrients.

Biofortification means growing crops that naturally have more nutrients.

Scientists can develop these crops through plant breeding, without adding nutrients in a factory.

The article says India has released more than 150 biofortified crop varieties.

Some farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar are growing them.

Biofortified wheat looks, cooks, and tastes like ordinary wheat, while containing roughly twice as much iron and zinc, according to the article.

The author believes these crops could help people get more nutrition from familiar foods.

They could also give farmers higher-value crops.