Patrick Moore is an ecologist and former Greenpeace president. He supports production of golden rice. He says there should not even be debate about the issue while children starve.
Patrick Moore是一位生态学家和前绿色和平组织主席。他支持生产金色稻米。他说,在仍有儿童被饿死,不应该出现关于这个问题争论。
Jean-Philippe Laborde, director of rice company, Tilda, thinks the answer lies in a new growing technique called Alternate Wet Drying, or AWD for short.
" They have to adapt, " said Pham Tan Dao, the irrigation chief for Soc Trang, a coastal province in Vietnam, one of the biggest rice-producing countries in the world. " Otherwise they can't live."
But it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environment, the swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family -rice.
Signing up would mean dramatic changes in Japan, a country which has 800% tariffs on rice and exports 65 vehicles to America for every one that is sent to Japan.