In the Philippines uprooted crops GM rice Bashny.Net

In the Golden rice the high content of beta-carotene — precursor of vitamin A, which gives the rice a distinctive yellow color. Vitamin a deficiency kills two million people and becomes the cause of blindness in half a million children a year. Not so long ago showed that the replacement of half of the consumed child of Golden rice provides 60% of daily need for the vitamin.





However, not everyone is happy the Golden rice. "It's poison," — says Willy Marbella, a farmer and Deputy Secretary General of the militant farmers ' group KMP. Mr. Costa, who took part in the protest in the municipality of Pili, province of South Camarines, thinks malnutrition caused poverty and the government needs to pay attention to this problem and not genetically modified crops.



Experiments say is that Golden rice is safe. But still it allowed to use not earlier than a end all test, said the international rice research Institute (MEERA), who is working on this site together with the experts of the Ministry of agriculture of the Philippines.



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