This year’s World Food Day Colloquium (WFDC) addressed the challenges and opportunities in our agricultural and food systems, answering questions on how different crises affect food security, how they evolve the industry and what is to be done to ensure a fully sustainable food value-chain throughout difficult times.
James Emejo in Abuja
The Executive Director, African AAgricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has insisted that the genetically modified cowpea variety of beans known as Sampea 20-T, is safe for consumption without any known side effects.
His assurance followed the commercial launch yesterday in Kano of the pod borer resistant cowpea which had been on trial in Nigeria.
Kyetere had at the virtual press conference on the pre-launch of the PBR cowpea in the country said the technology had no known adverse effects on human.
He stressed that the new beans variety is as safe as the conventional cowpea, which is grown without any genetic alterations.
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