Advantages
- More nutritional value.
- Resistance to bacteria, virus, and other plant-damaging components.
- Longer shelf life.
- Less costly GM foods and higher yields.
- DMH-11 GM mustard showed 30% higher yields.
Potential Risks
- Can trigger allergic reactions in humans.
- May be toxic in nature.
- Herbicide tolerant GM crops promote increased use of hazardous herbicides.
- Weeds can become resistant to herbicides.
- Affects honeybees and other pollinators.
- Contamination of honey.
- Loss of seed diversity.
- Loss of international competitive advantage of non-GM products.
- High cost of cultivation for small/marginal farmers.