GM crops can slash Africa’s pesticide use: Insect-resistant cowpea field trial shows farmers how | Genetic Literacy Project – Siemens Says

GM crops can slash Africa’s pesticide use: Insect-resistant cowpea field trial shows farmers how | Genetic Literacy Project

Post Author:Harry Siemens
Post published:10/12/2020
Post Category:Siemens Says

A team of scientists developing Bt Cowpea at CSIR-SARI organized a field day at its confined field trial site in Upper East Region [of Ghana].This brought to gather 70 farmers from Binduri District and Bawku Municipal …. The Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Jerry Nboyine …. took the participants through cowpea production and challenges and how Bt-Cowpea comes as a sustainable solution.

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