- Growing food with GMO's can result in better tasting fruits and vegetables that stay fresh longer. There also naturally resistant to insects.
- By developing special traits in plants biotechnology allows for more food to be grown in more places using fewer chemicals and fewer natural resources.
- This increase in availability of crops provides a significant economic gains to farmers in developing countries.
- According to usda biotech crops can provide enhanced traits. Including increased levels of beta carotene in rice to aid in reducing vitamin A deficiencies and improved oil compositions in canola, soybeans, and corn.
- Crops with the ability to grow in salty soils and drought conditions are also being created.