Ethiopia wheat production jump to 2.5M metric tonnes - to export to Kenya

[RV Pundit]

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Meanwhile we are stuck with importing. Yet farmers can produce wheat after planting maize - the three months would be good period to grow wheat.

The Future of Ethiopia: prosperity
1.7 million hectares of land covered by  wheat with rainfed. We started harvesting the rainfed wheat and the yield is really promising. I’m really proud of our great farmers and development agents! The new face of Ethiopia!
Thank God! pic.twitter.com/6klwe1YNr9

— Shimelis Abdisa (@ShimelisAbdisa) October 7, 2022

[Kadudu]

GMO wheat?

Meanwhile we are stuck with importing. Yet farmers can produce wheat after planting maize - the three months would be good period to grow wheat.

[RV Pundit]

Yes Dkt Ruto is keen on embracing biotechnology.

GMO wheat?

[RV Kirgit]

Who's going to buy Kenyan GMO when most countries have rejected it. Russia is currently the largest producer of non-GMO wheat, and Ethiopia might go the same route.

GMO is DOA. Has nothing to do with food security. We are setting ourselves to be vulnerable to USA food sunctions...

[sema]

The problem with introducing GMO in Africa is that African countries are pretty much lawless.  So, I can't see Europeans allowing imports from African countries that embrace GMO because they don't know what's going to be in their food source. It might help starving Africans, but I doubt Europe will allow imports (they're much more strict when it comes to their food than Americans are) which is why Europeans are much healthier than americans.

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/quality-standards/gmo-labeling