Future of Transgenic Crops
The commercial success of transgenic crops during 1994-2002 has demonstrated that significant benefits are going to accrue from the use of transgenic crops for commercial cultivation at farmers field. Significant benefits will include the following: (i) improved and more efficient weed control; (ii) decreased losses due to insect pests and viruses and decreased need of insecticide; (iii) decrease in post-harvest losses due to better shelf life and marketing flexibility (tomato) due to resistance against storage pests; (iv) increase in nutritional quality (oil in canola); (v) more effective production of hybrid seed.

Transgenic rubber tree has also been produced and will be used for a variety of purposes. Thus the future of transgenic crops is bright and optimistic. The market for these crops is expected to reach the level of 3 billion US dollars in 2000 and 6 billion US dollars in 2005. These goals will be achieved by sustained efforts, both in industrialized and developing countries. The public and farmers will have to respond to this changing scenario. The significant role will have to be played by public and private sectors to realize the benefits of these transgenic crops, which will be produced in large number in the present decade (2000-2010).