{"id":4294,"date":"2019-08-01T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T07:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"gm-cotton-yield-renews-hope-in-threatened-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/01\/gm-cotton-yield-renews-hope-in-threatened-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Cotton Yield Renews Hope In Threatened Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>BY GERALD ANDAE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have been\nconducting National Performance Trials (NPTs) on cotton since last year\nfollowing the intervention of State House after the initial attempts were\nstopped by the Ministry of Health and the National Environment Management\nAuthority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NPTs have been conducted on different parts of the country with the final season of the crop being the one that is in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The performance of this\nGM cotton, which yields are four times more than the conventional one, has\ngiven Mr Kiara hopes that the cotton sector in the country can be revived.\nHowever, his hopes are being dampened by a ban on commercial cultivation of\nthis biotech (Bt) variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have argued that Bt cotton is resistant to pests and diseases and have the ability to withstand drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis GM cotton is pest-resistant and drought-tolerant and it is the solution to the notorious bollworms that have been affecting the production of the crop in the country,\u201d says Charles Waturu, a senior scientist with Kenya Agriculture Livestock and Research Organization (Kalro).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the big four agenda, the government is targeting manufacturing, especially through textile production, which has been dwindling over the years, to create more jobs in the country\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/GM-cotton-renews-hope-threatened-crop\/3815418-5217552-tsb2v0\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GERALD ANDAE Scientists have been conducting National Performance Trials (NPTs) on cotton since last year following the intervention of State House after the initial attempts were stopped by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4295,"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-4294","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\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}