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Uganda farmers express concern after Kenya lifts 10-year GMO ban

Ugandan farmers under their umbrella Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmer’s Forum (ESSAFF) have appealed to the government to resist any temptation to allow GMOs in Uganda

Hakim Baliraine, the chairperson ESSAF Uganda petitioning the Prime Minister, Robina Nabbanja at the World Food Day Celebration at Namulonge recently. (Photos By Aloysious Kasoma)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Last month, Kenya lifted its decade-long ban on biotech crops and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), allowing the country to cultivate and import modified foods and cash crops such as GM

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