GM beans hit market in 2018.

GM beans hit market in 2018. The field trials for the genetically modified cowpea have been concluded in Nigeria and the artificially engineered staple food will hit the markets across the country in 2018, Federal Government officials and a science conducting the research have said. There have been calls for and against the adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms across the world, with some scientists arguing that the practice will be harmful to human health. But government officials, agricultural experts in the universities and farmers gathered in Sheda, Abuja and gave a clean bill of health to the biotechnology practice. The conclusion of field trials for the pod borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea (bean) was announced and it was said the country would officially introduce its first indigenously engineered GM product in commercial quantity next year.GM beans hit market in 2018.