MPs Fight GM Crops.

(From The Monitor (Uganda) - AAGM)

Byline: Badru D. Mulumba

Lawmakers from eastern Africa have warned against the importation of genetically modified products.

The warning comes shortly after President Yoweri Museveni has recently approved the importation of processed GM products. But scientists at the National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) are yet to approve the importation, according to a Naro report.

Mr Museveni allowed the importation last weekend while opening a research laboratory at the Kawanda Research Institute.

Museveni reportedly said US President George W. Bush sold him the idea.

The President's move comes as the row over GM products rages between …