Tanzania's First GMO Trial Shows 'Promising Results'

Tanzania’s first-ever genetically-modified crop trial was planted only a 30-minute drive from the capital.

A year ago the Tanzanian government relaxed the previous “strict liability” biosafety regime which had de-facto prevented any plant scientists from testing genetically engineered crops outside the lab. The “confined field trial” (CFT) we are about to visit is the result: the first-ever “GMO” outdoor trial in the country.

The biosafety regulations are irksome, not least because genetically modified maize of the same type is already being widely distributed and commercially grown in neighboring South Africa.

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/03/02/visit-tanzania-gm-field-trial-unearths-shared-passion-using-science-benefit-poorest/

Susy Morris

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