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Re:As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nut... by dick_sucker2 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:10PM (#17350318)
How do you enrich rice?
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Re:As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nut... by mikestew on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:15PM (#17350344)
Not only can you do it, it's Federally mandated in the U. S.: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/1431c

As to how, my understanding is that it's just coated with nutrients; easy peasy.

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Re:As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nut... by jschwartzi on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:55PM (#17350595)
A lot of people wash rice before cooking it which also washes the enrichment off it.
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Re:As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nut... by dick_sucker2 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:37PM (#17350472)
Thanks
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Re:As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nut... by devrieda on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:16PM (#17350349)
Through genetic engineering. For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
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