Sat, 04 Jan 2014 Agriculture

Stakeholders in agric sector tasked to prioritize fight against introduction of GMO foods

By GBC

Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah.

Stakeholders in the Agriculture sector have been tasked to prioritize the fight against the introduction of GMO foods into the country.

Speaking to Radio Ghana, the General Secretary of the General Agriculture Workers Union of the TUC, Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah said the strong advocacy being engineered by some self-seeking individuals and giant agri-business corporations in Western countries is a ploy to make developing countries such as Ghana more dependent.

Mr Offei-Nkansah noted that apart from its negative health implications and possible destruction of the country's bio-diversity, it is a blatant lie that the introduction of GMO is the best way to improve food production.

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Comments

Kwame | 1/4/2014 10:19:00 AM

Well done Go all out to stop it. It a power control, the major players are trying to control the world. Who is really behind all this. It's not God's influence, but the darker sides influence, people cannot see that. if you read articles about the GMO companies, they are capable of killing millions of people, with these GM seeds, they say the world is over populated. how can you have a fertiliser that will only allow a single plant to grow, what are they doing to the seeds. Wake up people. Go al...

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