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Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90


Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90
Harrison Smith
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Rice researcher Yuan Longping, at center in 2017, in a field of hybrid rice in northern China.
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed strains of hybrid high-yield rice that helped alleviate famine and poverty around the world, enabling farmers to feed a growing planet with fewer resources, died May 22 at a hospital in Changsha, China. He was 90.
The cause was multiple organ failure, according to the state-run People’s Daily newspaper. Mr. Yuan had been hospitalized in March after falling at a rice-breeding center in southern China, and reportedly continued to track the weather and monitor crops from his bed. ....

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Food security: Lessons from China, Yuan Longping - By: Vincent Nwanma


Food security: Lessons from China, Yuan Longping
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Wed May 26 2021
Since Saturday, May 22, 2021, China, the world’s most populous country, has been celebrating the life and times of one of its greatest achievers. Prof Yuan Longping, an agronomist, who died at the age of 90; but it is not just his longevity that his countrymen and women are dancing for.
China is paying tribute to the man who broke its hunger streak and helped the nation achieve near food security at a time when hunger was tormenting a significant fraction of the human race.
Today, China is the world’s largest producer of rice, and, surprisingly, it uses only nine per cent of its arable land to produce this. ....

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