Biotechnology Can Change Ghana's Agriculture.

Byline: Isaac Parbey

A Ghanaian Biosafety and Biotechnology expert, Prof. Walter Alhassan has said that introducing Agricultural Biotechnology in the country's agricultural sector will not only come to compliment the already traditional methods of farming, but deal effectively with issues of food security and the likely impact on farming from climate change.

He stressed that modern biotechnology is based on the developments in cellular and molecular biology that occurred in the second half of the 20th century, although traditional biotechnology has been in use for centuries and involves fermentation used in bread making, kenkey and alcohol production.

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