Indica hybrid rice is a rice variety. The new type of indica hybrid rice developed in modern times is known as the "Oriental Magic Rice" by foreigners.

In 1964, Yuan Longping first started research on the utilization of rice hybrid advantages in China. In 1973, the world's first indica hybrid rice was finally successfully cultivated in my country.

As early as 1763, Colude had already begun to study and observe hybrid varieties. In 1876, Darwin pointed out that the sexual factors in hybrids would differentiate to some extent, giving hybrids certain advantages. After entering the 20th century, various hybrid varieties have appeared in the field of agricultural production, but there has always been a blank in terms of hybrid rice.

In 1960, Yuan Longping, who was a teacher at Qianyang Agricultural School in Hunan Province at the time, discovered a rice plant with excellent characteristics during an early rice breeding experiment. Yuan Longping conducted in-depth research and analysis on this special rice for two years, and finally concluded that it is a natural hybrid rice plant.

In 1964, Yuan Longping began to devote himself to research on utilizing the advantages of hybrid rice. After extensive agricultural experiments and scientific research, in 1973, the world's first indica hybrid rice was finally successfully cultivated in my country. This indica hybrid rice successfully cultivated by Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, not only solves the problem of more people and less food in China, but also brings a green revolution to the world's food industry. Yuan Longping also won the title of "Father of Hybrid Rice" and won many international awards.

Introduction to Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. His ancestral home is De'an, Jiangxi Province, and he was born in 1930. Graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1959, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the National Hybrid Rice Technology Center and Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, and vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is the founder of hybrid rice research in China. His results not only solved the Chinese people's feeding problem to a large extent, but are also considered to be a magic weapon to solve the world's hunger problem.

Internationally, hybrid rice is even regarded as China's fifth greatest invention after the four great inventions, and is hailed as the "second green revolution".

He has successively won the United Nations Intellectual Property Organization’s “Outstanding Inventor” Gold Medal, the UNESCO “Science Award”, the British Jeanke Foundation’s “Jeanker Award”, and the American Feinster Foundation He has won eight international awards including the "Save World Hunger Award", the "Food Security Guarantee Award" of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Japan's "Nikkei Asia Award", the World's "Pioneer Scientist Award" for the Utilization of Crop Hybrid Advantages, and the "Japan Koshihikari International Rice Award". , known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Indica hybrid rice (Gramineae Oryza)