Ms. Yamashita, who owns a Japanese culinary restaurant, “YAMASEN” located in the capital city, sends us the upcoming news regarding seeds-planting in the northern Guru district.

Despite the effect of the COVID-19, the planting is on the right track since early May. In Uganda, people usually plant seeds by their handwork, whereas a cotton grower in Ethiopia adopted the new machine this year, 2020. In the coming autumn, this grower will start cultivation with a picking machine by spreading defoliant.

Planting Genetically Modified Seeds is legally permitted in Ethiopia, whereas it is banned in Uganda.