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Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90
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With the passing of Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, China and the world have lost one of the greatest agricultural scientists on our planet, and I have lost a great friend, Kenneth Quinn, president emeritus of the World Food Prize Foundation, said.
Quinn, also vice chairman of the Yuan Longping International Rice Development Forum, shared his memory of the father of hybrid rice in a written interview with Xinhua on Sunday.
Yuan greatly reduced hunger and provided farmers with surplus income through his discovery of hybrid rice and the development of seeds that could triple and quadruple production during the early part of China s economic and agricultural transformation in the 1970s and 1980s, Quinn said.
Posted by John Chan | May 24, 2021
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the world. Yuan, who was awarded China’s highest official honor in 2019, passed away on Saturday in Changsha at the age of 90. Throngs of citizens and public officials mourned his passing and celebrated his achievements, but authorities were also quick to censor criticism and arrest individuals who insulted him online. The New York Times’ Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley
Mr. Yuan’s research made him a national hero and a symbol of dogged scientific pursuit in China. His death triggered messages of grief across the country, where Mr. Yuan slight, elfin-featured and wizened in old age was a celebrity. Hundreds left flowers at the funeral home where his body was being kept.
May 25, 2021
Huizhong Wu
AP â Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died on Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the
Xinhua news
agency reported. He was 90.
Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname âFather of Hybrid Riceâ.
Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan’s breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he won in 2004.
On Saturday afternoon, large crowds honoured the scientist by marching past the hospital in Hunan province where he died, local media reported, calling out phrases such as: “Grandpa Yuan, have a good journey!”
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