Yuan Longping's hybrid rice, how many people in China are consuming it?

Yuan Longping's hybrid rice is formed with the poor taste of indica hybridization, the taste is even worse, now very few people to eat, generally more for animal feed. In the past, the old generation of material scarcity, eat enough to live, hybrid rice to a large extent to solve the problem of people's food and clothing. 1976 national wide-scale promotion of Yuan Lunping's hybrid rice, to 1988, the country has half of the paddy fields are planted with Yuan Lunping's rice, but with the improvement of living conditions, people choose to taste better rice for food. At present, Yuan's hybrid rice, the planting area in the country has shrunk to no more than 8.542%, has been withdrawn from the main rice varieties, so the book and the media said Yuan's old varieties generally we can't eat and can't buy.

Since Yuan's hybrid rice is a rice variety that seeks higher yields, shorter growth cycles and better soil adaptability, the indicator of taste has been discarded. One year yield three or even four seasons, from the past 700 kilograms, 800 kilograms, 900 kilograms, all of a sudden increased to the double-season acreage exceeded 1500 kilograms mark, once again breaking the world record, the yield was raised to the extreme. When encountered in successive years of extreme bad weather makes food production or even war, hybrid rice as a strategic material can quickly output, fill the people's stomachs, solve the problem of people's food.

The contribution of hybrid rice is not only in China, but also to the whole world. Although China is not short of food, but in some countries in Africa, food problems are still serious. Over the years, Academician Yuan Longping a commitment to hybrid rice technology to the less developed countries, to help those countries out of the basic food difficulties, has trained tens of thousands of professionals to these countries to take root, for the world to eliminate hunger have made a great contribution.