KENYA STARTS GM COTTON PRODUCTION THIS YEAR IN BID TO KICKSTART ITS UNDERPERFORMING TEXTILE MANUFACTURING SECTOR
February 1st, 2020
Kenya will start to grow genetically modified cotton this year, becoming the first country to do so in Eastern Africa. The move is significant as it is likely to inspire other counties in the region start to grow Bt cotton hybrids that are resistant to African bollworm and other pests.
According to Kenya’s ministry of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and cooperatives’ principal secretary for crop development and agricultural research, Hamadi Boga, the government is banking on the switch to GM increasing production to 300,000 bales of cotton (of all kinds) ...
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