Application of biotechnology to boost economy

Abstract

Biotechnology is the multidisciplinary integration of sciences and engineering in order to utilize the huge biochemical potential of biological systems for the protection, restoration and preservation of the environment and for the sustainable use of natural resources. The diverse disciplines of biotechnology reinvigorated by advances in emerging genomics, proteomics and metabolomics. The developments of biotechnological and engineering techniques are applied to solve many environmental, agricultural and industrial problems. In addition, agricultural biotechnology has been advancing very rapidly among the major disciplines of biotechnology. Although, it would give many promises in Sri Lankan contexts, it also poses as many questions.