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2008-09-16 | permalink
GM potato ”of no use” in South Africa
A pest-resistant strain of genetically modified potato, earmarked for possible commercial release in South Africa, will be of no use to local spud farmers, said the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) this week. It will also increase risk to the farmer in an already volatile agricultural sector. [...] ”The tuber moth is not high on the list of problem pests for our farmers,” explained Mayet. ”This cultivar of potato appears to be a solution, developed in a foreign lab, to search for a problem that hardly exists in South Africa.”
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2008-09-16 | permalink
GM potato ”of no use” in South Africa
A pest-resistant strain of genetically modified potato, earmarked for possible commercial release in South Africa, will be of no use to local spud farmers, said the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) this week. It will also increase risk to the farmer in an already volatile agricultural sector. [...] ”The tuber moth is not high on the list of problem pests for our farmers,” explained Mayet. ”This cultivar of potato appears to be a solution, developed in a foreign lab, to search for a problem that hardly exists in South Africa.”
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