Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist credited with saving millions of people from dying of hunger, died at 90 on Saturday. In 1973, Longping developed the world's first high-yield hybrid rice strain, ...

In this Oct. 15, 2017 photo, Yuan Longping, center, stands in a field of hybrid rice in Handan in northern China's Hebei Province. Yuan, a scientist who developed higher-yield varieties of rice that ...

In this Oct. 15, 2017 photo, Yuan Longping, center, stands in a field of hybrid rice in Handan in northern China's Hebei Province. Yuan, a scientist who developed higher-yield varieties of rice that ...

People pay homage to deceased scientist Yuan Longping at Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center in Changsha, central China's Hunan province, May 23, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] China on Monday morning held a ...

Rice is one of the most commonly eaten staple foods around the world. It's something millions of people take for granted. Buying it and cooking it is a matter of routine. Yet for many, its presence ...

This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended ...

Two years after the "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping died of illness at the age of 91, Chinese people presented flowers in front of his grave, posting images and text online to mourn the man who ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

Yuan Longping, a Chinese agriculturalist, was born in Qianyang, Hunan province in 1930. Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

Yuan Longping, known as China's "Father of Hybrid Rice," inspects the new breed in the fields in Hekou Township in Xiangtan City, central China's Hunan Province, Sept. 29, 2017. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge) Yuan ...