Recently University don told Kenyans farmers on alocal Tv station that you
cannot re plant seeds on reference to the on going GMO debate, the don was wrong
re planting of seeds is part of African traditions and it had been going on before the
birth of Christ BC, Farming had ben going on since ice age in the name of domesticating.
What the don needs to know is that with GMO we can still re plant seeds under community
seeds production.
Photo one show tomatoes grown using waste fruits and vegetables to grow at Railway
line vegetable garden in Kibera, The seeds were produced uisng waste fruits and platic papers
waste tomatoes wre just piked from dustbin dumping, No chemical used, so whta was the
don telling Kenya ns farmers.
Photo two Francis Ilahaka Culture writer turned Urban Farming promoters with
Technical Universirty student I Kiare with anient Tomatoes believed to have been first
planted in Kenya during Railway constration over 120 years back but still grow in some
parts of the Country in the bush and in maize garden without care, In the photo the
small tomatoes which still grow at Upper hill in Nairobi cannot be attacked by desease
and take long period to grow bad.
to comment on the issue email francisilahakai@gmail.com
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