By Bob MajiriOghene
In the Summer of 2008, I was part of a team that visited Germany on a 3-month training on Environmental journalism. As part of our training, we were taken to a lab somewhere in Dresden, I think, where innovative methods of food production were taking place. According to our resource persons, these ‘innovative’ methods favour ‘biosynthesis’ – a process where the genes of plants are tinkered with for optimum yield and stronger species of the food plants.
Prior to this time that the scientists were looking at biosynthesis, the regular, normal and natural process for plants to produce food was known as photosynthesis – where the plant grows to receive sunlight to enable it to produce a crop, a yield or what have you.
