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Showing posts with label GM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GM. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Researchers are confusing us with GMO, hybrid seeds, say farmers...

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The Nigerian farmers under the aegis, All Farmers Association of Nigeria ( AFAN) have cried for a rescue over the superiority of Genetically...
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Tuesday, 21 May 2024

GMOs probe, official says farmers are aware

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  As effort to probe already released Genetically Modified ( GM) crops' improved varieties into Nigerian markets by the lower chamber of...
Monday, 29 April 2024

Editorial: Embark on GMO enlightenment on dos and don’ts now

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  The new scientific exposition on the recently released transgenic maize varieties into the Nigerian seeds market has taken a new turn with...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Press Release: Former President Goodluck Jonathan is Africa’s Agriculture Technology Ambassador

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L-R : Dr Canisius Kanangire, AATF Executive Director, Dr Goodluck Jonathan,former President of Nigeria, Prof. Emmanuel Ikani, Executive Dire...
Monday, 8 August 2022

NISS Registrar endorses GMO seeds for farmers

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Soil expert, Registrar/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS), Prof  Victor Chude has endorsed Genetically...
Tuesday, 2 August 2022

GM seeds good for soil bio diversify, says NBMA DG

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Director-General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr. Rufus Ebegba Adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) Seeds have been sa...
Monday, 1 August 2022

Rising Population:Experts, others endorse Bt innovations for food security

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Scientists, farmers, media and civil society at a recently held science journalists hangout in Abuja have supported adoption of  biotechnolo...
Saturday, 23 July 2022

GMO: FG cautioned against foreigners funding bio safety regulation

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The Director General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr. Rufus Ebegba has warned Federal Government (FG) not to allow fore...
Friday, 8 April 2022

GMO, a panacea not to sleep on empty stomach, says NABDA DG

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  The application of Genetically Modified Crops (GMOs) technology into our food security programme has a solution to avert people from goi...
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Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Senate insists on GMOs thorough regulation, passes bill to committee on environment

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In a bit to ensure healthy food consumption and soils management against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) products, the senate presided ...
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Wednesday, 17 November 2021

GMO: DG, Media Guru demand support for research, investigative journalism

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The Director-General (DG), National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha has advocated Government’s proper f...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

IAR receives certificate to commercialize GMO maize

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The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Zaria has received a certicate of Tela maize open cultivation in Nigeria.  
Thursday, 7 October 2021

More GMOs for release, says NABDA DG

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·        ARCN points Bt cowpea scarcity Lt Pretty AIT, Middle Rt Vincent Daily Trust both winners of OFAB Grant. The Director-Gener...
Tuesday, 31 August 2021

Science, not fear, will drive Ghana’s decision on its first GMO crop, regulators vow

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  Ghana’s government says science, not fear-mongering will guide its decision on whether to approve its first genetically modified (GM) c...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Kenya and Nigeria progress as Uganda falters

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  Though several African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, are making tremendous strides in their quest to develop and c...
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Saturday, 28 August 2021

GM maize progresses in Nigeria as farmers struggle with drought and insect pests BY NKECHI ISAAC

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As farmer Ahiaba Sylvanus recalls, it never used to be necessary to spray maize, millet, and guinea corn with pesticides in the Nigerian ...
Saturday, 21 August 2021

Bad press and wild claims have unfairly slowed GM crops on the continent, African scientists say BY JOSEPH MAINA

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South African scientists are urging governments across the continent to take concrete actions to enhance the acceptability and adoption o...
Friday, 20 August 2021

Book review: Jennifer Thompson’s ‘GM Crops and the Global Divide’ offers lessons drawn from the history of the agricultural biotechnology revolution, for activists to CRISPR advocates

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 Jennifer Thompson   I’ve spent the last few weeks reading “GM Crops and the Global Divide,” the new book by Jennifer Thomson, emeritus p...
Sunday, 15 August 2021

Nigeria moves forward with nitrogen-efficient GMO rice

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 Still basking in the euphoria of commercializing sub-Saharan Africa’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop — insect-resistant cowpea —...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Farmers, seed companies embark on GM cowpea trials for certified seeds

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Almost a year after the official registration and release of genetically modified cowpea at the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Bi...