Agriculture in Kenya - Genetically-altered Growing

Genetically-altered Growing

Many farmers in Kenya refer to genetically modified (GM) maize delivered by the US as the Trojan horse. GMs are currently illegal in Kenya, although the US continues to send modified maize to Kenya in the form of aid.

Kenyans and other Africans, like Malawians and Zimbabweans, grind maize into flour before distributing it. Some activists have said that the US is purposefully sending GM food as aid to undercut the organic export market and cause Europe to start buying from the US. Other farmers may not be aware of GMs, and others are, as Hollie said simply too poor. If a farmer uses the chemicals, the soil becomes poor. “To date, over 30 million hectares of transgenic crops have been grown and no human health problems associated specifically with the ingestion of transgenic crops or their products have been identified”. although amount of transgenic crop says nothing of implications for human health and since transgenic crop is recently been introduced. Not enough time has passed to give a clear verdict for the future.