Nigeria: Why European countries reject Kontagora and Potiskum beans

A cross-section of stakeholders in the food production sector, have advised farmers in the country to ask questions from foreign organisations offering them seeds before planting in order to avoid a series of problems associated with food produce. The stakeholders, under the aegis of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, who gave the advice during a sensitization training programme for farmers, said many genetically modified crops have scuttled agricultural systems in the country. In an interview with journalists on the sideline of the training, a scientist and lecturer in the Department Microbiology, University of Abuja, Dr Casmir Ifeanyi, said that many farmers had laid series of complaints regarding the seeds they received for planting. Dr Ifeanyi, who said he was not against technology of increasing the farmers’ yield, noted that despite introduction of GM crops, Nigeria is yet to achieve food production sufficiency, adding that majority of the farmers who cultivate beans could ...