The Ministry of Agriculture against the crossbreeding of wheat with cactus

Russia needs to move faster in the development of gene technologies to stay ahead of climate change, but the Ministry of Agriculture opposes genetic modification in agriculture, said the head of the department Oksana Lut at the main strategic session of the "Bioprom 2025" forum, writes RIA "Novosti". "To crossbreed, let's say, wheat with a cactus, so that the wheat would be more drought-resistant, of course, we are absolutely against it," she noted. At the same time, the minister acknowledged that the climate is changing, this year the harvest in the Krasnodar Territory and Rostov Region was "burned out" due to drought. Therefore, "we need to think faster about what to do with growing technologies." Also, according to Lut, the agricultural department is categorically against radical solutions, "food without a field" created in a test tube. The minister emphasized that in Russia it is possible to grow anything, citing as an example the construction of the country's first greenhouse ...