In South Africa this year, as the main food crops in Africa won corn harvest, but farmers have committed from the worry, this is because a larger drop in corn prices, the other extra corn but few remained unfilled. This year, South Africa’s maize production reached 13 million tons, except for their needs, there are balance of 4 million tons, corn harvest not only lowered the price, but may also lead to 10,000 South African farmers in bankruptcy. Correspondingly, that, according to the World Food Program predicted that South Africa’s neighboring Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi this year’s total of 250 million people still need food aid. But because the safety of GM corn concerns, these countries have refused to import corn in South Africa.
90′s of last century, large areas of South Africa began to grow genetically modified crops, now 57% of South Africa’s national maize is genetically modified. As the South African farmer’s habit is to ordinary corn and mixed with genetically modified corn ground into cornmeal at the mill children, so they put food importers in South Africa were all regarded as genetically modified maize corn. But at the moment, most African countries have banned the import of genetically modified food. First, they worry about genetically modified food may harm human health at the same time to prevent the spread of genetically modified maize seeds as after, destroy their traditional corn species and cause damage to other plant genes, thus affecting their food security and ecological balance. Also, if genetically modified corn is used as feed, would threaten the southern African country’s beef export market to Europe, because Europe has long been the safety of genetically modified food has a strong challenge.
In fact, in most African countries, there are concerns about genetically modified food is not only the government, civil society, and many people also have grudge heart. In Kenya in April this year, local environmentalists to initiate action to ban imports of genetically modified foods in South Africa in the local discharge. In Zimbabwe, although every year millions of people in need of food aid, from government to private, was never to accept genetically modified food imports or compromise on the question.
In this case, the South African farmers can only look to the Government, can of corn for them to find new buyers.
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