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FEATURE: Brown rice can solve country's grain shortage
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The Manila Times
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June 20, 2008
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MOST Asian countries, including the Philippines, usually associate brown rice with poverty. It also known as a food for sick and elderly people.
But Filipino scientist and chairman of Asia Rice Foundation-Philippines, Dr. Emil Javier believes that brown rice can fill up the country's 10-percent deficit in rice supply.
He said if most of the Filipinos are eating brown rice, "we don't need to import rice to fill up the 10-percent shortage in our country."
Javier, who is also president of National Academy of Science and Technology, explained that brown rice is simply partly milled rice, which is why it has a brown color.
In the milling of brown rice, only 28 percent of the husk is removed. ...
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