To enable smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to farmer-preferred, elite cowpea varieties with resistance to insect pests, especially the pod borer Maruca vitrata.
The Nigerian Senate enacted the Biosafety Bill into law on June 1, 2011, after several years of stakeholders' discussion and debate. ...
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Nigerian Biosafety Bill may fail, say scientists
Supporters of GM crop technology fear that their four-year effort to get a biosafety bill enacted in Nigeria may have been in vain if the country's upper house fails to pass it before its tenure ends on 29 May. ...
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