Today, we mourn the death of a real food hero. China scientist Yuan Longping released the first hybrid rice variety on Twitter, saving millions of hungry people. The United Nations on May 23rd, the United Nations on Saturday? Father of hybrid rice? Yuan Longping is known as the real food hero, and Yuan Longping is famous for developing the first hybrid rice variety, which has freed countless people from hunger. Today, we mourn the death of a real food hero. China scientist Yuan Longping released the first hybrid rice variety on Twitter, saving millions of hungry people. He said that he was 9 1 today (died of illness), but his legacy and mission of ending hunger still exist. According to the documentary photos taken in 198 1 year, Yuan Longping chose hybrid rice specimens to attend the lecture. I deeply mourn the death of Mr. Yuan Longping! A man who has made great contributions to China and the world! A person who will be remembered forever! ? Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, also tweeted that China assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council in May this year.
Yuan, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, has been engaged in hybrid rice research for more than 50 years, providing hybrid rice to nearly one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9% of the world's total area, helping China to create a miracle. Yuan Yu was born in Beijing in 1930, and successfully bred the world's first high-yield hybrid rice variety in 1973. Later, it was planted on a large scale in China and other countries, and its output increased greatly. In the next forty years, he continued to study and improve hybrid rice, which has now developed to the third generation.
In China, rice is the staple food of 65.438+04 billion people, and the cumulative planting area of hybrid rice has exceeded 65.438+06 billion hectares, accounting for 57% of the total planting area of rice, with an annual increase of 80 million people. China agronomist Yuan Longping? Father of hybrid rice? He died on May 22nd at the age of 9 1. In the 1970s, he helped countless people avoid hunger. Hybrid rice grows in Asia, America, Africa and various environments. One of the most successful examples is Madagascar, an African island country. Yuan's discovery left a profound impact on farmers' lives. The United Nations paid tribute to Yuan and praised his contribution to food security, poverty reduction and people's livelihood.
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