06 Apr 2011Only three countries in Africa have commercialised biotech crops, said Prof Diran Makinde, director of the Nepad agency for the African Biosafety Network of Expertise, at a biotech information day in Johannesburg.
“There are multiple reasons why most African countries are unwilling to adopt biotechnology,” he explained. Firstly, they fear losing their trading partners in some commodities, as most African countries are still tied to their “colonial masters”, who constitute their biggest trading partners. Trade for foreign currency is of the utmost importance to many African countries.
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