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On June 6, 1981, Yuan Longping won the first national special invention prize for developing varieties of hybrid rice. He has spent his life working to feed a world hungry for the commodity.
The item in May 1997 from China Daily showed Yuan 25/33 17/28 22/30 21/35 18/23 24/31 24/30 23/27 13/26 25/28 20/29 16/26 22/32 14/25 26/29 28/36 16/27 12/23 11/22 14/26 26/29 22/30 21/30 24/29 18/23 27/29 C C Sh S C D
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In 1973, he successfully bred a special type of longgrained hybrid rice and the following year Yuan commercially released a hybrid rice variety with 20 percent higher yields, putting China in the lead worldwide in rice production. For the achievement, he was dubbed the “Father of Hybrid Rice”.
In 1979, the technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States, the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of New China.
By 2003, half of China’s 21/28 19/29 25/29 25/38 18/26 26/32 13/35 24/37 16/28 19/30 20/38 25/30 9/22 20/32 18/26 23/37 25/29 22/35 18/18 18/21 17/18 20/31 12/14 12/14 8/15 17/20 18/19 20/20 C T R C S D C C S C S D D S O S R S S S O D C D D D D C 22/28 19/28 26/29 25/33 19/30 26/33 16/29 24/31 18/31 20/31 22/35 25/30 8/15 19/31 15/26 24/36 25/29 22/33 15/17 18/24 16/19 21/30 9/11 13/14 6/17 18/20 18/20 18/19 O C R C D O C O S C C D D C O C R S S C D C C D C D C D rice production area was planted with hybrid rice. Yuan set world records in hybrid rice yield — in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017.
The 87-yearold scientist continues his research. At Qingdao’s SalineAlkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center in Shandong province, which is led by Yuan, a successful experiment has been carried out in planting rice in the Dubai desert. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Abu Dhabi 31/44 Bangkok 28/35 Colombo 27/31 Dubai 32/42 Hanoi 24/34 Islamabad 28/44 Jakarta 26/31 Karachi 28/36 Kuala Lumpur 26/33 Manila 27/33 Mumbai 27/34 New Delhi 32/39 Pyongyang 18/31 Riyadh 28/44 Seoul 19/31 Singapore 28/33 Sydney 14/18 Teheran 22/33 Tokyo 20/21 Wellington 9/13 Yangon 24/31 S D R S O S D S D D D C S C S D D D R D R 34/44 27/35 27/32 34/41 25/35 28/43 25/32 28/36 25/32 27/31 29/34 32/39 18/28 26/44 20/30 28/33 16/19 24/34 18/26 9/14 23/32 S D D S C S D D D D D S O C S D D D D D D
This is the first time that rice has been grown in a desert. It is a major contribution to enhancing food selfsufficiency, global food security and improving the environment of desert regions. BuenosAires 7/13 Caracas 26/29 Chicago 16/25 Houston 23/33 Las Vegas 29/37 Los Angeles 16/21 Mexico city 18/26 New York 14/25 Ottawa 10/20 Rio De Janeiro 18/26 San Francisco 12/20 Sao Paulo 14/21 Vancouver 9/16 Washington 15/24 Cairo 22/36 CapeTown 11/21 Johannesburg 1/15 Lagos 26/29 Nairobi 14/25 O D S C S D D C D D D D D D S C S C O 6/12 C 26/30 D 17/27 D 24/31 D 25/36 S 15/21 S 18/22 R 15/26 O 11/22 D 20/24 D 14/21 D 16/21 D 11/16 D 16/28 O 23/37 S 16/17 C 0/15 S 26/29 D 14/25 C