Articles by Inoussa Maiga, Farm Radio
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Burkina Faso: Organic Cotton Under Threat from GM Cotton
Inoussa Maiga, Farm Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
Producers and project staff are worried about the future of organic cotton. What concerns them is the jump in plantings of genetically modified or GM cotton. By 2009, genes from GM crops had been found in organic cotton. At that time, only 10% of conventional cotton farmers were growing GM varieties. But with the massive spread of GM cotton in 2010, almost 90% of conventional producers now grow GM cotton.
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