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Ghana begins GM seeds field trials

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  • Di Nokware & Di Asempa 10 years ago

    Oh dear Ghana,
    When would we see the need to develop our own resources, for which we have lots of competitive advantage. The Prof WS Alhassan, a dairy cattle nutritionist, has now and suddenly become an expert on Biosafety. ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    No matter the lies and deceit some facts are evident and the people have woken up to the reality .One mans reality is another's madness. Hegemony you can only fight with hegemony , tribalism with tribalism , chauvinism with c ...
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  • Di Nokware & Di Asempa 10 years ago

    Dear "Insight to the bone,"
    What has your script got to do with the article (news item) and the comment made, to which you have made yours?

    Can you help us understand you, please?

  • Patriotic Akan and Citizen of Akanlan 10 years ago

    Ghana is officially a "Failed State" as of 29th August 2013 and will soon become "Somalia".

    I urge all Akan people of South Ghana to immediately create a Independent new Akan country out of Brong-Ahafo region, Ashanti reg ...
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  • Talk True 10 years ago

    Masa, why are you still alive, go drink poison and die because you are seriously in pain and life is worthless to you. Ghana will surely outlive you and your kind. Shame on you, rabble-rouser.

  • GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    fools. which of these ministers collected bribes from the un, BILL GATES FOUNDATION, imf/WB JUST SO THEY CAN FOLLOW THRU WITH THIS CRAP?

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    every con man always useslong talk and plenty of bullshit to buttress his scam and thats what atuguba has done here in the hope that since most people can not follow up he can get away with murder. i am surprised he didn't wr ...
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  • Di Nokware & Di Asempa 10 years ago

    Dear "Insight to the bone,"
    Please save us and help us "reason" with you, if at all.

  • Patriotic Akan and Citizen of Akanlan 10 years ago

    Ghana is officially a "Failed State" as of 29th August 2013 and will soon become "Somalia".

    I urge all Akan people of South Ghana to immediately create a Independent new Akan country out of Brong-Ahafo region, Ashanti reg ...
    read full comment

  • PAUL AFFUL 10 years ago

    so finally our politicians have succeeded in destroying ghana further more by approving of gm seeds being planted in ghana despite all the negativeness about it?......we will gradually begin to lose the natural attributes of ...
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  • Di Nokware & Di Asempa 10 years ago

    Dear Paul Afful,
    Sadly so, but this time it is not our politicians, but our technocrats (scientists) who are supposed to know better. I have lots of respect for Prof Alhassan, but NOT on this one. He could have advised bette ...
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  • CHIEF ADVISER 10 years ago

    We Ghanaians are blessed with the best kind of crops more than any country but sadly enough, we are leaving them for a sceintific one which holds the possibility to give us dangerous and incurable dieases. What a sad thing to ...
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  • kwaku Adu-Gyamfi(voice of Reason) 10 years ago

    I hope and pray that those who are busy pushing these GM foods down our throats are aware of the implications and all the medical complications these GM food will bring. Do we have enough money to pay the medical bills and bu ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    This GM thing could end up killing us with strange diseases and because we don't have the science,we will be blaming all kinds of juju. Whilst the technocrats will be making recommendations, it is the politicians who approve ...
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  • Kiddo 10 years ago

    Countries in the European Union who started this GM seeds do not even want them on their soils in their countries. How much more our beloved Ghana that we have plenty of green lands for farming. This tells me again that our l ...
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  • KEN 10 years ago

    SLVERY IS STILL PROMINENT IN GHANA ,BUT THIS TIME THEY ARE NOT EXPORTING , THE SLAVES ARE STAYING HOME REPRESENTING THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS ,WHERE CAN YOU BUY GHANIAN RICE IN GHANA ? I CAN TELL YOU WHERE YOU CAN BUY RICE FROM ...
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  • I AND I 10 years ago

    If u are a good Christian or a good Muslim reject these damned GM thing.
    Cos we believe in Creation that GOD created everything and in no way we'll shift to silly Man-made crops.It's an insult to our Creator.

  • I AND I 10 years ago

    Anyone who believes in GOD and CREATION wld not advocate for GM crops.Some satanic worshipers are trying to challenge GOD's authority but Behold it wont work.
    All these atheists and the disciple of satan want is to get rich ...
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  • Conventional Youth 10 years ago

    Hmmmmm

  • Canada Sheabutter (GhUWR ) 10 years ago

    OH MOTHERLAND , WHAT IS KEEPING US BACKWARDS,
    WHATS IS WRONG WITH OUR SO CALL INTELLECTUALS & OPINION LEADERS ?

    H1V AIDS WAS RELATED TO THE AFRICAN & APES ,
    NOW HERE THEY COME AGAIN TO POISON OUR CHILDREN AFTER SLAVERY ...
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  • Canada Sheabutter (GhUWR ) 10 years ago

    CONTRACT BEGOTIATIONS

  • Canada Sheabutter (GhUWR ) 10 years ago

    CITIZENS SHOULD REVOLT AND PICKET AT PARLIANMENT HOUSE/ WRITE TO YOUR MP'S TO STOP THE MADNESS & INSANITY

  • Patriotic Akan and Citizen of Akanlan 10 years ago

    Ghana is officially a "Failed State" as of 29th August 2013 and will soon become "Somalia".

    I urge all Akan people of South Ghana to immediately create a Independent new Akan country out of Brong-Ahafo region, Ashanti reg ...
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  • YoungLiberalsPartyGH 10 years ago

    And do they really have enough data to care ???

  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    These "intellectuals", is it that they don't know or they've been bribed? EU, with all their sci & tech, has said NO to GM. Why do we go for it? If the intellect of our "intellectuals" has failed, can't they try common sense?

  • King David 10 years ago

    Those bribed, empty-headed scientists, etc trying it should feed their families with the rice & cowpea for 10yrs as part of their trial. After they get the strange diseases, and the land is no longer arable, they'll then thin ...
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  • Micheal 10 years ago

    OMG....this thing is not going to help in the long term. I dreaded this day.

  • KOTI YE ABOA 10 years ago

    we are all going to loose our penises...nooooooooooooo!!!! shit that GM stuff is full of estrogen, and that is bad for both men and women, males will loose their maleness and the women become infertile, fat and dopey. we have ...
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  • ADAM 10 years ago

    please stop these crazy GM FOOD, WE DO NOT WANT IT HERE IN GHANA but you are forcing it on us

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    Adam, they are not forcing it on us. Are we not human to decide on what we want or not? It is our so-called leaders with slave-mentality, enshrined in greed - who have taken money for our people to be experimented on like gui ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    What is wrong with us? Why do we just accept everything from beyond our shores
    as 'gospel'? Have we researched the reasons why the people of the countries where this GM science is coming from are themselves rejecting it?

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  • YAW MANU 10 years ago

    THIS IS A VERY SAD NEWS INDEED. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS TO OUR BELOVED COUNTRY? OUR FOREFATHERS LIVED ON ORGANIC PLANTS AND WERE HEALTHY AND STRONG. THEY FED THE COUNTRY THROUGH MANUAL LABOUR ALL OVER THE YEARS WITH ORGANIC CRO ...
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  • Gandalf 10 years ago

    This is indeed a very sad day for Ghana. we will live to regret this day when more GM seeds are introduced to supplant our 'natural' ones and the burden of disease has risen beyond our capacity to bear. As part of our strateg ...
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  • Micky 10 years ago

    What is wrong with us? Can anybody tell me any good things about GM Seeds apart from the lies that the commercial producers of those seeds tell about them. It is complete stupidity to allow GS Seeds when even the EU have reje ...
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  • Talented 10 years ago

    A lot of European countries are banning GM foods and we are now going for it.Oh God,when is Africa going to learn?We are now going to buy the cancers and all type of diseases.

  • ghanaman 10 years ago

    burn this crap, these same big men who r in charge dont care about u and i........they only care about themselves........burn it to ashes......i refuse to consume man made crap which will enrich MONSANTO

  • ghanaman 10 years ago

    ghanaians are passive timid people who do not follow the words with action......i hate it

  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Thus is utter madness!

    We do not need GM technology to become self-sufficient in food.

    This technology is dangerous - it has caused cancer in rodents. New Zealand has banned it.

    Why on earth are we allowing it in our ...
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  • Rubaba 10 years ago

    GM seeds should be a no no for us. We aren't that hungry to want to eat food that we all know will be killing us gradually. I have read extensively on GM foods and it isn't good news at all. Even Haiti in their very hungry st ...
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