{{A Harvad University Proffessor has warned that if Africa didn’t embrace Genetically Modified Plants in its Agriculture production, the problems that have plagued its agriculture will continue.}}
Prof. Calestous Juma added that the diseases that affect Africa’s agricultural products will continue doing so unless the continent embraces GMOs.
He cited the Cassava wilt disease,saying that with GMOs, it would be no more, cassava production will more than double,and to him this is what transformation is all about.
The Don argued that Genetical engineering has the potential to do for agriculture what mobile technology has done for the communications sector.
Prof. Juma advised, “to realize this potential, African countries need to adopt flexible and supportive biotechnology regulations”.
Explaining the benefits of emerging technologies on economic transformation Prof Juma noted that all technological innovations start with deregulation ‘if Africa had restrictive Mobile technology regulations imposed at the outset, it would not have benefited from the technology and even pioneered in fields such as Mobile money transfer “ he said.
Prof. Juma the Director of the science, technology and globalization project at Harvard University. He was speaking at a Public Lecture in Uganda organized by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA).
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