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Controversy stalks adoption of GMOs depite experts' assurance

Activists, scientists and farmers protest in Nairobi on September 17, 2015, against lifting the ban on BT maize. [File, Standard]

The BT maize variety at the centre of heated conversations could be unprecedented in the country, but the technology is not entirely new, especially in the West.

The current debate was sparked by an announcement by the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) that, in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation, it had received an application for the open cultivation and commercialisation of BT maize.

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