A Civil Society Organisation, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, in collaboration with the Genetically Mutilated Organism -Free Nigeria Alliance and the Network of Women and Youth in Agriculture, have urged the Nigerian Government to ban the use of GMOs and inorganic pesticides in farming. They said apart from the health risks GMOs and inorganic pesticides pose, they've brought a lot of economic downturn to both farmers and the Federal Government.
It added that over 76 per cent of Nigeria’s food exports are rejected in the EU and Asia for not meeting safety standards. It further observed that agricultural products like beans, sesame seeds, melon seeds, dried fish, dried meat, peanut chips, groundnut, palm oil and yam, exported from Nigeria, have in the past 10 years been banned by the EU partly due to the presence of dangerous pesticide residues.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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