According to James Njiru, a senior researcher at Cereals Growers Association, army worms have been deliberately introduced by cartels to create a market for their pesticides. He says:
“It is apparent that this worm has been introduced into maize seeds deliberately by international seed dealers in conjunction with some local dealers to create a market for pesticides from the same dealers,”
Then I saw today’s paper someone advocating for “introduce gmo maize to curb army worm”
Once introduced from Monsanto company it means every year you will have to go back to them for another clone. Hence becomes addictive like sigara. Then they control you with prices and determine what pesticides you buy from them and at what price. Purely it’s cartels hands
Introduction of GMO farming in Kenya has been faced with a lot of opposition. I understand that manufacturers make seeds which on harvesting cannot be propagated. You will not have a choice but buy from them because you cannot use your harvest as seed.
I think with global warming, that raise in temperature will create new diseases and pest the world will have a hard time to get rid off. The guy is just speculating… I believe only governments(…and I mean world powers) have the ability to invest in biological warfare and surely not on farmers.
So you can finally be starved of the face of the earth, and they can take over the land. GMO seeds could easily be turned into a weapon of mass destruction. When someone controls your seeds, they can decide whether you live or die, they have the power to withhold or supply dead seeds incapable of germinating to producing food.
Turudi kula mihogo, viazi, nduma, mtama etc. People who eat the foods I have mentioned rarely are they afflicted with lifestyle diseases. We will be killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
I come from a maize growing region . Kuna hizi mbegu ya kenya seed called H614 .man the moment you plant it , it’s high yielding which is ok, but at no single time will you take the seeds you harvested and replant them . They won’t grow. So you have to go back to kenya seed and buy another seed for another season. So try imagine if something goes wrong in kenya seed and give guys the wrong seeds to plant? There will be njaa kubwa. I prefer other competitors to emerge in the market especially on the maize sector .
Maize has been grown for nearly 10,000 years. It was not sustained by GMO seeding or via financial minded multinationals. Traditional preservation never failed until artificial preservation arrived.
I do not know whether the epidemic is natural or manmade but most of you are misinformed about the GMO thing. Since the introduction of hybrid seeds farmers have to buy new seeds every season, introduction of GMo will not change anything.
We always buy new hybrid seed everything season because hybrid seeds are F1 seeds which give high yield due to something called hybrid vigour. If you plant seeds from your own last season harvest they will yield low since they will be F2 generation seeds.
Introducing GMO maize like they did with Bt cotton, would actually harm manufacturers of pesticide and benefit multinational seed producers who have the capability to produce this GMO maize seeds. The local seed companies would struggle for several years till when they will have that capacity