People are very skeptical about green genetic engineering, but researchers have high hopes for this technology.
Dusseldorf For farmer Jürgen Recht, 2022 was a bitter year. “Without water, nothing grows,” he says. The drought and the heat throughout the summer have left deep marks on his fields: the plants are drying out, the soil is drying up deeply. Right estimates the crop losses of the Ermsleben agricultural cooperative in the Harz region, to which he belongs, at 30%.
It was the fourth year since 2018 with months without rain and unusually high temperatures. For field plants in Germany, these are sometimes fatal shocks. They are not used to such a climate and there is practically nothing they can do about it.
Bauer Recht has no options for irrigation. For him, there is no doubt: “We will need new seeds that are more robust and able to better cope with the consequences of climate change.
>> Read here: Parched like it hasn’t been in 70 years: how southern Europe wants to fight drought
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