{"id":5630,"date":"2019-09-30T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"seed-firms-watch-farms-for-gm-maize-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/30\/seed-firms-watch-farms-for-gm-maize-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed Firms Watch Farms For GM Maize Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Gerald\nAndae<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marketers\nsay commercial interest will be key to determining whether to adopt the\ngenetically modified (GMO) maize seed that is on trial in the country as part\nof their varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\nargue that their key market \u2014 the farmers \u2014 need to accept it first before they\ncan adopt the technology once the country allows its commercialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to weigh the benefits of science against commercial returns. We need to know the cost of production and many other underlying factors,\u201d said George Osure, regional director for Syngenta East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seed companies, he said, make profits by selling their commodity in huge markets and that there should be a sizeable number of farmers, not only in Kenya but also in the entire East African market for them to recoup production costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seed\nTrade Association of Kenya (STAK) said without awareness, firms faced the risk\nof suffering huge losses\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/markets\/marketnews\/Seed-firms-watch-farms-for-GM-maize-demand\/3815534-5292176-5m7tjwz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerald Andae Marketers say commercial interest will be key to determining whether to adopt the genetically modified (GMO) maize seed that is on trial in the country as part&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5631,"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-5630","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\/5630","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=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}