HERE LIES A SOLUTION TO THE HIGH MAIZE PRICES

Are you making noise about GMO maize in Kenya, then this should make you wail.

The Kenya seed companies are reaping farmers while the ministry of agriculture and KARI watches. The need for profits from sell of maize seed contributes to the cost of maize production in the country. The high maize seed price however is nothing compared to the secret terminator gene that seed companies are using to hinder maize produce unsuitable for seed use. The seed companies induce a gene in their seed varies that makes any produce from their seeds to be infertile meaning you cannot use them as seed for the next season something you would comfortable do save for the induced gene.

Despite this big conspiracy, the good researchers at KARI came up with a maize variety KSTP-94 that has no terminator gene and is therefore not barren. The trick is to harvest the maize from the center of the farm once you plant this variety and store it for use as seed in the next season. The onus of picking the maize from the center is to avoid picking the side maize that might have been pollinated from maize from your neighbor’s farm thus not pure for seed quality.

The strange thing though that makes one wonder is the laxity of the ministry of Agriculture to tell farmers about these seed variety by KARI and also avail it in the market in mass.

There is a lot that can be done in Kenya to alleviate the daily blunders called “National Disasters” the cash cow of RED CROSS and other NGO’s.