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Burkina Faso farmers move away from GM cotton

17/01/2017
Burkina Faso’s agriculture minister, Jacob Quedragon, has said that the country’s cotton harvest for 2016-2017 has increased by 25% year on year thanks, partly, to good levels of rainfall.

However, another factor is that cotton farmers in Burkina Faso reverted to conventional cotton for the most recent crop, rejecting genetically modified varieties.



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