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IINRG Vision 2050

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Title IINRG Vision 2050
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Creator Ramani R
A Bhattacharya
AK Jaiswal
KK Sharma
N Prasad
 
Subject Natural Resins and Gums, Lac, Gum Karaya, Guar Gum
 
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Preparing Vision 2050 is a highly challenging task. It involves visualizing
how the sector is likely and expected to evolve during the time frame set and
a good understanding of the overall global scenario that would emerge in time
to come, with particular reference to those factors which would infl uence the
production and consumption of the NRGs. Envisioning the projected demand
of the commodities addressed will be the obvious basis for developing the
road map of vision document. The task is relatively easier with regard to food
commodities which would be based on projections of population growth as well
as changes in food preferences. Envisaging demand for natural resins and gums
(NRGs) after about four decades is rather complex. Consumption of NRGs
linked to quality of human life, as their strong areas of consumption are in food,
cosmetics and pharmaceutics. Tremendous changes could be envisaged in these
sectors by the middle of this century, which is expected to positively impact on
the demand for NRGs. Similarly development of novel areas of consumption
will also push up the demand. Thus a multifold increase in demand is envisaged
necessitating concomitant increase in NRG production.
At present the demand-supply gap appears rather wide indicative of
adequate scope for boosting the production to desirable levels. The estimated
production of NRGs in the country during 2012-13 had been around 8.4 lakh
tonnes. It is hoped that demand would grow stronger due to increased interest
on use of natural products. The world would move towards environmentfriendly
production technologies and safer raw materials that are renewable
and can be produced on sustainable basis.
NRGs are inherently vulnerable to climatic conditions leading to
fl uctuations in supply and price, both of which are important for achieving
a sustainable demand. All the R&D efforts will be to achieve higher and
sustainable productivity with optimal inputs, ensuring high quality of NRGs and
development of novel and specialty applications especially in low-volume highvalue
products; emergence of new frontier areas would trigger paradigm shift in
application domains. Biotechnological tools would enable harnessing genes for
mass production of useful molecules in bio-factories. Such production systems
would complement rather than replace the conventional production systems;
drastic changes are nevertheless foreseen with introduction of highly organized
plantations with advanced parameter monitoring, automated management
systems for precision farming for sustainable production. Advanced information
and communication systems would lead to management of production systems
at national level, for demand-production matching, on annual basis.
The pace of technological strides has tremendously increased in recent
decades and this trend would continue during the forthcoming decades as
well. Besides, the institute could in future take in related new areas such as
biopolymers, derived especially from agrowastes, ushering new domains of
research. Thus, even a realistic portrayal of the roadmap and sector scenario by
2050 in the NRG sector is likely to read like a science fi ction. This document may
therefore be viewed as rather a conservative picturization of NRG sector by 2050
and R&D framework to a meet the requirements that would emerge.
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Date 2018-02-26T14:24:51Z
2018-02-26T14:24:51Z
2013-07-01
 
Type Vision Document
 
Identifier Ramani R 2013. IINRG Vision 2050, Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Ranchi, India. 24 pp.
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5864
 
Language English
 
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