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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.
CALOOCAN CITY, May 26 (PIA) — The Presidential Communications Operations Office - Office of the Global Media and Public Affairs’s Laging Handa Dokyu won a major award at the Gandingan Awards 2021 of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.This year’s Gandingan 2021: The.
Two CNN Philippines news programs and senior anchor Rico Hizon clinched major honors at the University of the Philippines Los Baños Gandingan multimedia awards held on Saturday.
15.Cebu Institute of Technology-University 17.University of Immaculate Conception- Bajada Campus De Vera said that CHED lauds these additional 17 HEIs for “responding to the call for
bayanihan by using HEI facilities as vaccination centers so that more people belonging to the priority groups, including our HEI frontliners will be assured of protection.”
In offering its facilities, CapSU President Editha C. Alfon said that the university recognizes the valuable partnership between the university and LGUs in fighting the spread of COVID-19.
“With the expected immunization in the coming months, CapSU will be working closely with the local government health unit of Roxas City to implement this massive vaccination to achieve mass immunity against the virus,” Alfon said.