Name: DAISY M.

LUMINARIO Date Accomplished: 10/04/22

Year & Section: IV-ABE 2 Subject Code:

CRITIQUE PAPER
Needs, Challenges and Objectives for Biotechnology and Agriculture in Africa

The article “Needs, Challenges and Objectives for Biotechnology and Agriculture
in Africa” is a Biotechnology Seminar Paper written by Z.M Nyiira to address the needs
and challenges African countries face regarding biotechnology and discuss the
decision-making process for determining priorities, turning them into feasible programs,
and ensuring that these activities meet end-user needs. The article focuses on the
processes and solution to develop the biotechnology in Africa and used it to enrich the
Agriculture in Africa.
The writer argued that biotechnology comprises new and emerging tools that will
be used to accelerate economic growth and improve the social status of the African
people. The need for the judicious acquisition of technologies without compromising the
benefits of their application in developing economies were also discussed. The writer
has examined the relationship and linkages between scientific research, industry,
marketing, and socioeconomic development and attempted to show the future of
biotechnology in Africa, and strategies for installing biotechnology in national systems in
Africa without compromising on biosafety issues through several critical policy issues.
The writer discussed the factors or problems that affects on the development of
Biotechnology specifically in agriculture in Africa as well as the solutions to those
problem.
Africa is considered as one of the poorest countries, a lot of Africans are hungry
and experiencing malnourishment, but how it is happened when there is a lot of
engineers, researchers, and scientist in this country. As mentioned in this article Africa
has the capacity to join the developing countries, but firm decisions are necessary on
financial investment, manpower development and international cooperation. The
continent must retrieve scientists from the diaspora scattered all over the world.
Biotechnology revolution in Africa needs a strong team of geneticists, molecular
scientists, biotechnology-oriented specialists, industrial chemists, engineers, and high-
level technicians. successful agrobiotechnology transfer and application will depend on
access to information, positive national policies, and, most importantly, the recognition
by national governments of the central importance of science and technology in national
economic and social development. It will further depend on the depth of understanding
of the limitations of agricultural biotechnology, with regard to such factors as the time
required to assimilate and benefit from a technology, and the cost-benefit relationships.
Successes from biotechnology depend on decisions made by our generation.

Overall, this article is interesting, from the introduction or what are the topics to
be tackled to the conclusion of the writer. Each sub-topics are connected to each other
and the reasons how the mentioned needs and challenges in biotechnology in
agriculture of Africa have a great factor in enriching the biotechnology in Africa. Overall,
it is a good, well-written article with an important message for public administrators
and organizations. The piece, when taken as a whole, is relevant and very convincing in
theory never lays out a concrete way of approaching this complex problem.