Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping (; September 7, 1930May 22, 2021) was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019.Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—boosting food security and providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine. The technology allowed China to sustain 20% of the global population on 9% of global arable land, an achievement in food security for which he was awarded the 2004 World Food Prize and the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture respectively. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Qiming Lv, Weiguo Li, Zhizhong Sun, Ning Ouyang, Xin Jing, Qiang He, Jun Wu, Jiakui Zheng, Jiatuan Zheng, Shaoqing Tang, Renshan Zhu, Yan Tian, Meijuan Duan, Yanning Tan, Dong Yu, Xiabing Sheng, Xuewu Sun, Gaofeng Jia, Hongzhen Gao, Qin Zeng, Yufei Li, Li Tang, Qiusheng Xu, Bingran Zhao, Zhiyuan Huang, Hongfeng Lu, Na Li, Jian Zhao, Lihuang Zhu, Dong Li, Longping Yuan, Dingyang YuanGet full text
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