{"id":3761,"date":"2019-07-15T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"is-agricultural-biotechnology-the-future-of-agriculture-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/15\/is-agricultural-biotechnology-the-future-of-agriculture-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Agricultural Biotechnology The Future Of Agriculture In Kenya?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Alex Wachira <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Popularly known\nas agritech, biotechnology is the practice of using scientific techniques and\ntools such as genetic engineering to change and improve plant and animal\nproductivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It entails\ngenetically modifying microorganisms, plants and animals to desired\ncharacteristics and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crops may be modified\nto a certain growth rate, products size, ability to resist to insects, pests\nand diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers can\nmanipulate plants and animals through selective breeding in order to create and\nachieve any desired traits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic goals\nof every farmer usually include increased yields, pest and disease resistance\nand drought resistance which can all be achieved through agricultural\nbiotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biotechnology\nmight simply be the solution to Kenya\u2019s future and current agricultural\nproblems like adverse climate and weather changes, feeding an ever growing\npopulation and converting the huge bare chunks of land to be arable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herbicide\ntolerant crops for instance would save farmers the many hours spent on the farm\ngetting rid of weeds thus invest them on other productive agricultural\nactivities that will help promote food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers can use\nchemical&nbsp;herbicides&nbsp;that allow crops to survive and grow while\neliminating weeds in the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study shows\nbiotechnology in Kenya can be improvised to help farmers even diagnose crop\ndiseases by incorporating mobile technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya still has\na great potential to grow crops bio technically like Africa top countries\nnamely South Africa, Egypt and Burkina Faso; who grow biotechnology crops on a\nhuge commercial scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Risks feared to\nbe experienced from the growing and rearing of genetically modified plants and\nanimals is the major inhabitant and limitation to Kenyan farmers fully\nembracing biotechnology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.co.ke\/article\/2001333460\/is-agricultural-biotechnology-the-future-of-agriculture-in-kenya\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Wachira Popularly known as agritech, biotechnology is the practice of using scientific techniques and tools such as genetic engineering to change and improve plant and animal productivity. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}