Understanding
\nOf Nature
\nOf soils and of need
\nSeem to go out the window
\nWhen it comes down to feed<\/p>\n
The people thats when ofcourse
\nGenetics is played
\nThats the card of the moment
\nWhere profits are laid<\/p>\n
Fairly and squarely
\nInto the ring
\nPearls of the earth
\nThe familiar ring<\/p>\n
Of money and purpose
\nAnd making it flow
\nAmong poorer nations
\nThat still have to grow<\/p>\n
To develop technologies
\nFavouring those
\nWho want to make money
\nAnd everyone knows<\/p>\n
Splicing the genomes
\nIs big business and now
\nThe likes of Monsanto
\nHave showed us all how<\/p>\n
In Ethiopia lentils are eaten
\nThey represent value
\nAlongside the wheaten
\nFlat breads of old
\nNutritious and good
\nBut growing them
\nReally is not how they should<\/p>\n
Rust was a problem for farmers
\nWe hear
\nThey could lose half their crops
\nIn any one year
\nAnd so BASF came up with the plan
\nTo genetically modify
\nSo they began<\/p>\n
In Gimbichu to use this
\nClear field strain
\nIt grows like the clappers
\nIts called el amain<\/p>\n
It isnt susceptible
\nto damp and so
\nIt high yielding properties
\nIs why they grow<\/p>\n
One women Demekech Tekleyohannis
\nStarted and she
\nShowed the new yellow lentil
\nWas good to be<\/p>\n
And this lone women
\nHas manAged the crop
\nShe now has a home
\nAnd we hear is the top<\/p>\n
Grower around buying oxen
\nIs she
\nTo help her plough
\nAnd much better she be<\/p>\n
She says can a poor man buy a plane
\nNot at all
\nWhich is why she is sure
\nThat she is on the ball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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