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Bioeconomy, biomanufacturing and biosafety
The bioeconomy and its safeguards: biomanufacturing and synthetic biology, the policies and bodies that fund them, biosafety laboratories and the rules on dual use research. It serves GS3 answers on biotechnology.
13 Sep 2026 · Prelims and Mains
India's bioeconomy
India set out its vaccine and bioeconomy figures at a meeting in New Delhi. Volume, rather than value, is what the claim to be the world's largest producer rests on.
- The bioeconomy was valued at 195.3 billion United States dollars (USD) for 2025, 18 per cent up on the previous year.
- India puts its share at about 60 per cent of global vaccine production, reaching more than 100 countries.
- It meets over 65 per cent of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) routine immunisation requirements.