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2009-10-08 | permalink
Biotech industry brings South African farmer to Europe to promote GE crops
Motlatsi Everest Musi, a small-scale maize farmer in South Africa [who acquired 21 hectares of land through South Africa’s land redistribution for agricultural development programme in 2004], has been cultivating genetically modified Bt-maize since 2005. He told reporters at a EuropaBio event on Wednesday that growing the technology had boosted his profits and enabled him to expand his business.
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2009-10-08 | permalink
Biotech industry brings South African farmer to Europe to promote GE crops
Motlatsi Everest Musi, a small-scale maize farmer in South Africa [who acquired 21 hectares of land through South Africa’s land redistribution for agricultural development programme in 2004], has been cultivating genetically modified Bt-maize since 2005. He told reporters at a EuropaBio event on Wednesday that growing the technology had boosted his profits and enabled him to expand his business.
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