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Take advantage of biotechnology
By Global Farmer Network< 1 minute
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A number of African countries have begun to take advantage of agricultural biotechnology to overcome crop production challenges. The last country reported to have done so is Nigeria where more than 2,000 farmers are ready to grow genetically modified cowpea this year. Last month, Kenyan cotton farmers reported a bountiful first harvest of GM cotton just only four months after the farmers planted the country's first genetically modified insect-resistant cotton seeds that resist the destructive African boll worm.
Click here to read the entire article by Michael Ssali in the Daily Monitor.
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