Raul Boncodin, Golden Rice Project Manager at IRRI, was very eager to answer the guests’ questions and explained that Golden Rice will only be released to farmers after the breeding work is completed and all appropriate biosafety and regulatory requirements have been met. esearch will be spearheaded by PhilRice and the plan is to submit all safety requirements to government regulators, which may be as early as 2013 in the Philippines and 2015 in Bangladesh.