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Father of Hybrid Rice -- Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping,a Chinese agriculturalist,was born in Qianyang,Hunan Province in 1930.Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to agricultural education and research.He is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,Director General of China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center,Honorary President of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and Vice-Chairman of Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.Professor Yuan was a pioneer in hybrid rice research and made remarkable achievements in this area,first developing hybrid rice in the world.The achievements of Yuan Longping greatly solved the food shortage,and provided as a solution the worldwide starvation.It is regarded as the fifth invention after China's Four Major Inventions,and is acclaimed as the Second Green Revolution.He was awarded with many international awards,such as Gold Medal Award for the Outstanding Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization,Science Prize of United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization,Rank Prize for Agronomy and Nutrition of the United Kingdom,Medal of Honor for Food Security and Sustainable Development of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization,and Fukui International Koshihikari Rice Prize of Japan.
Yuan Longping started the research of indica hybrid in 1964.At the beginning,he discovered male-sterile rice.Then he brought forward h third hybriding paddy and carried out experiments on farmland.Yuan Longping made breakthrough in 1973.He was the first person to develop indica hybrid rice.The new technology was tested in many areas of South China in 1974 and 1975,and then extended to other areas.China became the first country that is capable of producing hybrid rice.Yuan Longping is the first scientist who successfully altered the self-pollinating characteristic of rice and realized large-scale farming of hybrid rice.This earned him the title "Father of Hybrid Rice".
His pioneering work in hybrid rice breeding and production techniques has revolutionized rice cultivation in China,establishing China's world leading position in hybrid rice research.From 1976 to 1987,the total cultivated area of the hybrid rice developed by Yuan reached 1.1 billion mu (15 mu=1 hectares),and increased rice yield by 100 billion kg.In 1979,the hybrid rice was transferred as China's first agro-technology patent to the United States.At present,the hybrid rice developed by Yuan is planted on the farmlands all over China,which played an important role in increasing China's grain production.It made possible the feeding of 22% of the world population on only 7% of the world's total arable land.

Yuan Longping, China's Most Famous "Farmer"
It says every scientist cherishes a childhood dream indicating his or her future success, but for Yuan Longping, dubbed as "father of hybrid rice," the...

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Yuan Longping, China's Most Famous "Farmer"
It says every scientist cherishes a childhood dream indicating his or her future success, but for Yuan Longping, dubbed as "father of hybrid rice," the dream is that he cultivates rice as plump as peanuts, and farmers can relax in the cool shadow of big rice plants.
Yuan, 71, won a 5 million yuan State Supreme Science and Technology Award today, known as the Nobel Prize in China, for his outstanding achievements in breeding high-yield hybrid rice, which has substantially increased China's grain output.
Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s. Since then, 50 percent of China's total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice, which added some 300 billion kilograms to the country's grain output.
Furrows grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China, who would rather be called "a farmer."
Indeed, like many Chinese farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has devoted most of his life growing rice in paddyfields, but unlike those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.
The urbanite-turned-farmer graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 has his name related to the world's most advanced agricultural technology. Four minor planets, a listed seed company 's and a science college in China were named after him, which were the first time that a Chinese scientist's name is valued for its intellectual assets.
By lending his name to the Longping High-tech, a seed company, Yuan obtained a 5 per cent stake, or 2.5 million shares worth 2 million yuan, in the firm.
However, Yuan said his research requires the lifestyle of a farmer, or rather a migrating farmer, as he has conducted extensive research related to the cultivation of new strains of hybrid rice "Super Hybrid Rice" in some 10 provinces.
In the year 1999, more than 300 billion kilograms of grain were increased from about 240 million hectares of hybrid rice, which signified the success of his research. And this made Yuan firmly believe that China can surely feed her 1.2 billion population with her limited cultivated land.
The "Super Rice" yields are 30 percent higher than those of common rice. The record yield of 17,055 kilograms per hectare was registered in Yongsheng County in Yunnan in 1999.
But even after that achievement Yuan won't take a break. He has a dream, more realistic than that of his young age, that popularizing new strains of grain with higher yields around the world, can eliminate starvation on earth.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has vowed to get involved in the work of spreading the coverage of Yuan's high- yield hybrid rice, which it considers the best way to increase the world's grain output.
The FAO's 1991 statistics show that 20 percent of the world's rice output was yielded from 10 percent of the world's rice fields, which grow hybrid rice.
"If the new strain was sown in the rest of the rice acreage, the present grain output around the world can be more than doubled. This can be a solution to the grain shortage," said the unselfish scientist.
In 1980, Yuan went to the United States at the invitation of the International Rice Research Institute to share his knowledge about the cultivation technology of hybrid rice. He was also employed in 1991 as the chief consultant of FAO to bring his research methods to other countries.
With the help of Chinese scientists, the acreage of hybrid rice in Viet Nam and India increased to 200,000 hectares and 150,000 hectares in 1999, respectively.
The rice research costs time to prove its value. At the age of 43, Yuan cultivated the world's first hybrid rice. At that time the country's grain yield was about 4,500 kilogram per hectare.
"The natural disaster and policy miscarriage further deteriorated starvation in China by then," Yuan recalled tearfully.
This is his motivation to stimulate his research. Largely due to his scientific progress, China's total rice output rose from 5. 69 billion tons in 1950 to 19.47 billion tons last year. The growth rate of rice output far exceeded the population growth speed.
Some people estimate Yuan's actual fortune might amount to more than 100 million yuan (12 million U.S. dollars), making him one of the richest people in China. But he doesn't know for sure himself, for he seems not to care about his own assets than the rice harvest.
Some people asked him to move the focus of his research from improving amounts of hybrid rice to the quality and taste, which would be easier to do. But, the stubborn academician insisted that the amount of hybrid rice's per unit yield still outweighs the quality, for his foremost task is to improve the grain reserve in developing countries

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Yuan Longping (born September 7, 1930) is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the
first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid rice" has since been grown ...

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Yuan Longping (born September 7, 1930) is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the
first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid rice" has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America,
and Asia —providing a robust food source in high famine risk areas.
Mr. Yuan won the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award of China in 2000, the Wolf Prize in agriculture
and the World Food Prize in 2004. He is currently is DirectorGeneral of the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center and
has been appointed as Professor at Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha. He is a member of the Chinese Academy
of Engineering, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (2006) and the 2006 CPPCC.
Mr. Yuan was born in Beijing, China. He loves playing Majong and the Erhu (Chinese violin), swimming and motorcycling.

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