Agency seek increased funding for the domestication of GMO
Agriculture
To fully domesticate the development of Genetically Modified crop in the country, the Nigerian Agriculture Seed Council (NASC) has called for the need to scale up funding for agricultural biotechnology in the country.
The Director General NASC, Olusegun Ojo who stated this during the training of over 20 seed scientists on the detection of GMO crops noted that to fully domesticate the National Biosafety Law, there was need to increase funding to the subsector.
He pointed out that agricultural biotechnology is about increasing food production for the teeming population, which mandates the federal government to up there ante in the development of capacity to be able to produce the reagents for the detection of GMO seeds and the development of the biotech crops in the country.
It would be noted that the National Agriculture Biotechnology Agency (NABDA) said it had to import the reagent for the detection of GMO seeds from South Africa, as the seeds cannot be readily differentiated with the naked eye.
The DG who was represented by the Director Seed Coordination, Dr Joseph Omole stressed the need for the National Assembly to give maximum support for Nigerians to begin to develop Nigerian-owned Genetically modified crops.
He said “the first step to biosafety is for Nigerians to develop GMO by themselves, domesticating it start with the production of all the reagents, our laboratory technologist, biochenmist must take up the challenge and begin to prepare the GM seeds on a commercial scale and government must provide the enabling environment for the development of biotech seeds”.
Omole noted that although there are dangers with GM seed, which necessitate for a regulatory agency that are well funded by the government, adding that if not controlled it could be used as biological weapon.
He maintained that regulated GM and agricultural biotechnology product are very safe, adding that GM varieties are very young to cause cancer as Cancer are usually induced and it would take time before it begin to occur.
NABDA Director General, Prof Lucy Ogbadu noted that the training of the scientists was very apt to the development and detection of genetically modified crops in the country.
She said detection of GMO seed can only be done through scientific means and procedures adding the training would ensure that there are competent Nigerians in National Seed council who can detect GMO seeds.
She said “that Nigerians don’t produce GMOs does not mean we cannot patronize seeds produced by Mosanto, if Nigerian don’t manufacture aircraft but still fly inside it, then nothing stops us from adopting GMOs
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In 2014, Monsanto (soon to merge with Bayer) and Dow Chemical (Now Dow-DuPont) spent over $10 million to try to defeat Maui County’s ballot initiative calling for a moratorium on GE crops until Independent tests showed environmental and health impacts here where over 90% of Monsanto’s GMO are created. This was the most money ever spent per vote cast in any county election in U.S. history – and they still lost.
Instead of conducting tests they knew they will fail because misfolded proteins and the related disorders are just one of the many health impacts of transgenic or cisgenic insertion events the chemical companies just sued to avoid the tests.
Many peer reviewed studies have shown GMO does not increase yield and only increase pesticide use and total costs.
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20 years of GMO comnsumption and 40 years of glyphosate residue consumption and still not even one confirmed illness or death.
Guess how many people were confirmed to have died LAST WEEK from consuming alcohol?
Quit being such a Drama Queen.
Hawaii produces less agricultural products than many COUNTIES on the mainland.
So you don’t have a single piece of scientific data showing gm crops are harmful
Despite Monsanto-Bayer and Dow-DuPont suing to avoid Independent Longterm Health and Environmental Impact Studies at GMO ground zero as can be read about here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/23/hawaii-birth-defects-pesticides-gmo
Or about how hard it is for us to publish when the chemical corps hold veto:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research/
Here are peer-reviewed science showing harm:
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37855
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565351400352X
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=57871
https://www.organic-systems.org/journal/81/8106.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412014002669
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069805
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
https://www.enveurope.com/content/pdf/s12302-014-0014-5.pdf
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045%2815%2970134-8.pdf
https://genok.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/010615_GENOK-HTIntactaBrazil-FINAL_web.pdf
https://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150805/srep12886/full/srep12886.html
https://m.jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2015/07/09/dev.117291.short
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2014/07/23/jeb.109520
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21338670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27769625/
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lol looks like you would be better suited to a shouting through a megaphone while wearing several piss soaked coats standing on a street corner, are you using the internet in a public library
it’s like you don’t think google works and people can’t simply look at your links copy and paste their titles and look at how they have been critically received within the scientific community…
More false statements. The vote was illegal because it was already regulated by a higher authority. Secondly, US yields have set records with 90+% gmos so obviously that is false as well r do you wish to pull up old data that agrees with Makes you case look better?
“Many peer reviewed studies have shown GMO does not increase yield and only increase pesticide use and total costs.”
This is simply 1) Not true and 2) Number trickery/lying
There is no specific “yield” gene, however, by using appropriate controls, farmer increase yield. There are GE practices that increase yield in certain situations.
Although the “more pesticide” can technically be true in some cases, this is how the number trickery/lying is taking place: Suppose a farmer uses imazethapyr at 1 oz per acre on conventional soybeans. He switches to RR soybeans, and uses glyphosate at 8 oz/acre. Technically, he has used “more” pesticide, but in reality, he has decreased the toxicity of the application.
This means “more” weight is literally “less” toxic. Not including this information is purposely misleading, and makes telling this tale a lie.
I’m a farmer who uses both imazethapyr and glyphosate, I raise both GE and non-GE crops. If I use imazethapyr, I cannot plant potatoes for three years because of possible chemical carry-over harm. If I use glyphosate, I can plant anything I want the next day with absolutely zero harm.
That is a demonstration of the toxicity of those two chemicals on a real farm using real farming practices by a real farmer who actually raises GE and non-GE crops side-by-side.
We will review and take appropriate action.