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2009-02-16 | permalink
Grain traders insist non-GE maize available in Zambia
The government instructed the FRA more than a month ago to import at least 100,000 metric tonnes of maize grain as the country waited for its maize harvest in April. To meet the shortfall, the FRA ordered some 100,000 metric tonnes from South Africa, but the controversy over maize supply has deepened further as more than half of the first consignment which arrived in the country last week was Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) grain.
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2009-02-16 | permalink
Grain traders insist non-GE maize available in Zambia
The government instructed the FRA more than a month ago to import at least 100,000 metric tonnes of maize grain as the country waited for its maize harvest in April. To meet the shortfall, the FRA ordered some 100,000 metric tonnes from South Africa, but the controversy over maize supply has deepened further as more than half of the first consignment which arrived in the country last week was Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) grain.
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