Obinna Onwuasoanya is a tech reporter of over five years, fiction writer, SEO expert and an editor. He is based in Lagos, Nigeria, and was previously shortlisted for the Writivism Short Story Prize 2018.
The United States Department of Agriculture has approved Upside Foods cell-cultivated chicken label. The cultivated meat startup now needs to meet site inspection criteria to begin selling its product in restaurants.
A deal of this kind is likely to attract regulatory scrutiny that will delay it for months but Bunge and Viterra are keen to form the trading powerhouse.
Ghana's National Biosafety Authority (NBA) already approved a GMO crop, the Pod borer resistant cowpea (or Bt cowpea) in 2022 for environmental release. The Bt cowpea is said to need about 6 to 8 times less pesticides during its three-month life cycle.
