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Bill Gates Touts ‘Magic Seeds’ to Fight Food Shortages, Warns ’Progress Has Stalled Amid Numerous Crises’

Bill Gates Touts ‘Magic Seeds’ to Fight Food Shortages, Warns ’Progress Has Stalled Amid Numerous Crises’
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates speaks at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, on May 25, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
9/13/2022|Updated: 9/13/2022
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Billionaire Bill Gates is pushing for the use of “magic seeds” as a way to combat food shortages, citing examples of crops that are genetically modified organisms (GMO) used in Kenya and India.

“Magic seeds” is a term Gates gave to a new type of maize that was developed by a group of African crop researchers. By breeding certain varieties of maize, researchers created a hybrid crop that was more resistant to drier, hotter climates, Gates wrote in the sixth annual Goalkeepers Report published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sept. 12. The new crop, DroughtTEGO, produced an average of 66 percent more grain per acre in Kenya, he claims.
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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