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GMO maize field trials renew career hopes for biotechnology students

A protest march in Nairobi last year against genetically modified crops. PHOTO | FILE

When Ngure Mutero was five months into completion of his biotechnology degree, the Health ministry imposed a ban on Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops in Kenya. This was devastating news.

After years of studying biotechnology, his skills would have gone to waste following the ban on use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products in Kenya.

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