Yuan Longping is an agricultural school teacher in a town in Hunan. Despite the poor working conditions, he devoted himself to scientific research. In addition to teaching every day, it is to cultivate high-yield varieties in experimental fields. In his experiment, he found that the natural hybrid rice had big ears and full grains, and high yield, but when it was planted again the next year, it degenerated and lost its advantage. He wants to carry out an experiment to cultivate hybrid rice seeds that can maintain high yield.

For this ideal, Yuan Longping spent a lot of energy, sometimes observing in the experimental field, even ignoring his own home. After 10 years of efforts, it was finally cultivated successfully. The yield per mu of this hybrid rice is over 65,438+0,000 kg. After the nationwide promotion, the rice output in China increased by 1 000 billion kilograms in a few years, which is really a leap! Yuan Longping won the first National Special Invention Award.

The United States and other countries also introduced his achievements. Known as the "father of hybrid rice", he fought a turnaround to change the backward state of grain production in China.

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The Concise Course of Hybrid Rice written by Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", in 1985 has been published by FAO and distributed to more than 40 countries, which has become a guiding book for the research and production of hybrid rice in the world.

In 2004, Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize for "demonstrating the broad prospect of ensuring world food security and eradicating poverty" and "devoting itself to teaching and applying hybrid rice technology to dozens of countries in the world, including the United States". The "Belt and Road Initiative" has provided a strong impetus to help countries along the route increase food production.

According to the statistics of Hunan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, by the end of 20 18, more than 7 million hectares of hybrid rice had been planted in more than 40 countries. "My childhood was spent in the bonfire of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and I know the humiliation and suffering of the nation.

When I can use my scientific achievements to win a place for China on the world stage, it doesn't matter whether it is the title of' Father of Hybrid Rice' or various scientific awards. My first thought is that I have won honor and dignity for the people of China. "Yuan Longping said.

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