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Kenyans are poised to start consuming genetically modified foods following the lifting of a ban of such produce which has been in effect for 10 years. The lifting of the ban comes at a time when the country is grappling with a famine which has ravaged more than 20 counties and left more than 2.4 million Kenyans starving.
Long before the seasons went mad and school kids could predict with precision when rally cars would splash mud in their neighbourhood after the schools closed in April, the government was more proactive in assisting farmers in planning their farming.
Such memories are brought alive by notices that the government religiously published its official gazette telling farmers when to start planting their crops. Of course those were the olden days when a chief could saunter into a home and arrest the head of the household for not taking his livestock to the dip.
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