Querries Over Gazetting of Biosafety Law

Kenya raising standards and import requirements for GMOs

The government in gazetting the Biosafety Regulations seeks to regulate the cultivation, importation and trade, in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as a way to prevent unscrupulous importation of the GMOs into the country. Kenya is the fourth country in Africa to allow GMOs. Government trying to encourage country’s R&D with GMOs in order to save the farmers in excess of Kshs 6 billion that are lost annually through post harvest losses to the maize stalk borer.

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