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Grains of truth 2

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Title Grains of truth 2
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description Commenting on the article Grains

of truth on genetic modification in Spore 88, our faithful correspondent Samuel Zeleke in Gambella, Ethiopia, writes: 'In most ACP States especially in Africa, agricultural research has been conducted on finding new varieties of plants or new breeds of animals using mostly traditional breeding techniques involving mass gene transfer. These methods are slow and take many years to succeed.



Africa has a vast resource of fauna and flora of various species that have good potential for GMO research. So far however these huge resources have not been utilised efficiently. African states must believe and accept the advantages of GMO research over traditional breeding techniques for developing (new varieties) in a brief time.'
Grains of truthCommenting on the article 'Grains of truth' on genetic modification in Spore 88, our faithful correspondent Samuel Zeleke in Gambella, Ethiopia, writes: 'In most ACP States especially in Africa, agricultural research has been...
 
Date 2014-10-16T09:05:42Z
2014-10-16T09:05:42Z
2000
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2000. Grains of truth 2. Spore 90. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46031
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore;90
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore