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By Crispin Maslog
MANILA: Golden Rice, announced two decades ago as the answer to Vitamin A deficiency, is nowhere near production.
In 2000, a Time magazine cover announced the sprouting of “Golden Rice”, promising to enhance nutrition for millions of poverty-stricken rice-eating Asians. The magazine showed the father of Golden Rice, Swiss plant researcher Ingo Potrykus, touting it as “rice that could save a million lives a year”. (1)
A diet of Golden Rice pale yellow because of genetically embedded beta carotene from which Vitamin A is made by the human body could bring rice-eating consumers the gift of life and sight.
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