• S. RAMESH
• M. JAYARAJ
• P. SUDHAKAR
• S. MANIMARAN
• N. RAMESH

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization have estimated that around 792.5 million people across the world are malnourished, out of which 780 million people live in developing countries. Malnutrition is an alarming problem in the world. People in developing countries are the major victims of this problem. Progress has been made to control micronutrient deficiencies through supplementation and food fortification, but needs food based solution. No single intervention will solve the problem of micronutrient malnutrition this can be overcome by different methods namely, agronomic biofortification, breeding and transgenic approaches. Biofortification is the process of adding nutrients into food crops, provides a comparatively cost-effective, sustainable, and long-term means of delivering more micronutrients. Biofortified staple foods cannot deliver as high level of minerals and vitamins per day as supplements or industrially fortified foods, but they can help by increasing the daily adequacy of micronutrient intakes among individuals throughout the lifecycle. Thus biofortification sounds a very effective way to attain nutritional security and its effectiveness on human population will be discussed in this paper.

malnutrition, biofortification, food crops, effective, human population.

"NUTRITIONAL SECURITY THROUGH BIOFORTIFICATION - AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.592-597, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808988.pdf

"NUTRITIONAL SECURITY THROUGH BIOFORTIFICATION - AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp592-597, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808988.pdf