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The contract of the new crop, basis December reached the peak of 8.2975 dollars a bushel, the highest ever recorded in the Chicago Stock Exchange and above the previous record of

As we saw in this chapter to biotechnology is a very important tool for the development of Brazil as world agricultural power, but we must emphasize the importance of research. And to get an idea of its importance, the increase in productivity in the various cultures saved 60 million hectares to Brazil, but still in some cultures our average productivity is low. In corn, for example, our productivity is half of U.S.A productivity. Search is a technology and factor income generator to the field, but Brazil has employed little recourse in the area. In 2011 em‐ ployed 1.3% of GDP in science and technology, and in 2012 must employ only 0.9%, which

The biggest challenge of this century is to feed the whole world's population; poverty and hunger are inextricably linked and are about 1 billion people, mainly rentals. So what we will do to overcome this in a sustainable way? What are the threats to the production, distri‐ bution and safety of these foods? And, mainly, what we will do to allow people to have ac‐

In 2011, approximately half of the world's poor were small resource-poor farmers, whilst an‐ other 20% were the rural landless who are completely dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. Thus, 70% of the world's poor are dependent on agriculture – some view this as a problem, however it should be viewed as an opportunity, given the enormous potential of both conventional and the new biotechnology applications to make a significant contribu‐ tion to the alleviation of poverty and hunger and to doubling food, feed and fiber produc‐

In the next fifty years will be nine billion people and the world will consume twice as much food as the world has consumed since the beginning of agriculture 10.000 years ago. The challenge of feeding the world and interest to increase the potential of biotech‐ nology are intimacies trailers and, as biotech crops already occupy about 160 million hectares or 10% of the world's arable land, is significant and visible the ancestry of this

According to some international institutes, the world until 2020 will grow 20% in food pro‐ duction and Brazil will have a 40% growth in production with an increase of just 16% of the area. To see the responsibility, since the increment of production in traditional countries like

With all this challenge, it should be noted that the transgenic plants are not panacea to solve all the problems of agriculture. Transgenic agriculture is only a complement to conventional agriculture, organic and other modalities. However the endless search for improvement of

the USA will be 15%, China 15%, and in the whole of Europe, 4%.

8.2875 dollars per busheltested three weeks ago by September.

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is a setback and lack of objectivity.

cess to them?

tion by 2050.

market in today's society.

**8. Perspectives and final considerations**

Gleberson Guillen Piccinin, Alan Augusto Donel, Alessandro de Lucca e Braccini, Lilian Gomes de Morais Dan, Keila Regina Hossa, Gabriel Loli Bazo and Fernanda Brunetta Godinho

Department of Agronomy, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
