Dubbed the "father of hybrid rice," Yuan Longping cultivated the world's ... Yuan was also a benevolent gentleman with an unwavering commitment to the well-being of humanity.

Yuan Longping, an agronomist who developed strains of high-yield rice that made significant progress against famine, died in a hospital on May 22 at age 90. People’s Daily, a state-run media outlet in ...

A heartwarming example is a Gambian farmer who sent rice to Hunan in gratitude to Yuan Longping ... China’s commitment to Africa’s industrialisation is also evident through its “Ten ...