Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice” and hailed for his contributions to the country’s food security, died on Saturday 22 May 2021. He was 90 years old.
The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a national hero for boosting grain harvests and helping to feed the world’s most populous country.
Yuan has died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan province.
Born in Beijing in September 1930, Yuan began his career as an agrarian researcher and he often said in interviews that he was driven to increase rice output in China because of the hunger he had witnessed.
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