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The food, feed, fiber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of
doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and fiber production by the year 2050 to
meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes
in food prices in the recent years further warrant that production and productivity
need to be enhanced to ensure adequate supplies. Biotechnology can make a
significant contribution to this effort as demonstrated by cotton and other crops;
the new advances in biotechnology have made it possible to develop plants that
contain genes that were not possible to be developed by sexual means. Cotton has
been a leader in the use of biotechnology. With the introduction of Bt cotton,
followed by stacked cotton products (insect and herbicide tolerance) and extensive
use of molecular breeding tools, cotton cultivation has been much improved.