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My name is Richard Osei-Amponsah, Lecturer of Animal Breeding and Genetics at the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana. 

I thank the organisers of this e-mail conference for the opportunity to discuss an important issue that has an impact on our efforts to attain food security.

I agree with other contributors on the potential benefits of genomics in plants and animal breeding. If a technology exists that can help us increase food production, reduce diseases and ensure that we get the best of investments from agriculture then it makes sense to utilise that technology.

I will like to know more about the impact of the genomic technologies in the developed countries (where most of the challenges indicated by Prof. John Gibson can be overcome) and why many countries are not implementing some of the results of genomics in the field. 

In most of our countries the locally adapted livestock breeds still play important roles in agriculture and therefore we need to be mindful of any negative impact of genomics on the local germplasm.

In most of the developing world, the technology is still new, laboratories are non-existent or ill-equipped and the human capacity is not always available. These issues have to be addressed to gather sufficient data to sensitise all stakeholders including the livestock keepers, small scale farmers, scientists, policy makers and donors before genomics will have an impact. For instance, it will be necessary for countries to recognise the contribution of genomics to their agriculture, factor it in their breeding programmes and invest adequately in it before we can see any benefits in the field. Until then, the technology will remain in academic labs and used to develop scientific literature.
 
Richard Osei-Amponsah, PhD.
Department of Animal Science
University of Ghana
P.O. Box LG 226
Legon
Ghana
Tel: +233277407496/+233208637575
e-mail: rich12668 (at) yahoo.co.uk

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