I’m pretty sure you can find some kind of greens that will grow anywhere on the planet that rice can be grown. Eat some greens for your vitamin A deficiency. Unless of course your civilization just sucks at growing food. In that case, you have a different deficiency.
I predict we are about to get another demonstration of that last in South Africa.
Agree-greens are a better choice all around-also, is there no way to deliver vitamin supplements in plastic bottles to these vitamin-deficient people-like the rest of the world uses? Or would that make too much more sense than expecting people who don’t seem able to plant and grow any food crop to enthusiastically embrace this rice and make it thrive?
It seems to me that it would be easier and cheaper just to send a fleet of trucks loaded with vitamins and a nutritionist or two to explain the need for vitamins in simple language and teach these people how to get a glass of water, open a vitamin bottle and take a capsule with the water-sounds like a better plan than trying to teach them to grow some new variety of rice when they haven’t been able to do sustained cultivation of any other crop they have been shown how to grow and harvest...
The only golden rice I’m going to eat is if I cook it fresh with saffron and other spices-otherwise it is only organic brown rice on my table...