Secretary of biotechnology development headquarter stated: Iran is equal to the world regarding genetic engineering.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Mostafa Ghanei, secretary of biotechnology development headquarter, expressed about the progresses of Iran in this field: transgenic is a topic in the field of genetic engineering, on which the country has significantly emphasized in the past few decades and even a scientific research center of genetic engineering has been established. In this regard, he added: this move has made us equal to the world in terms of owning science and technology in the area of genetic engineering.

He continued: however, with regard to the issues occurred in the past few years, focusing on the area of agricultural and herbal products has been lowered, causing problems in this respect.

According to Ghanei, considering the statistics of starvation and unfavorable effects of water shortage on agriculture on developing and less-developed countries, and increased population of the world in the future, countries of the world have aimed to plan on using new technologies to produce two times more food in the existing lands.