Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

Samuel Wathome 65, a small-scale farmer inspects his crop at his maize farm where he plants indigenous seeds at Kyeleni village of Machakos, Kenya December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

(This Dec.15 story has been corrected to remove reference to GMO crops being seedless in paragraph 5 and to fix the timing of the lifting of the ban in paragraph 2)

MWEA, Kenya (Reuters) - Dick Olela has been growing maize on his four-acre piece of land in the Migori county in western Kenya for the last three decades but fears his livelihood could be undermined by the government's sudden embrace of genetically-modified crops.