[China Power] China's hybrid rice has a record high yield in Africa! Recently, at the Sino-African Symposium on Agricultural Cooperation and Development, Yuan Longping presented an English speech video: He is willing to help other developing countries develop hybrid rice. (@People's Daily, China Daily)
Yuan Longping is the pioneer and leader in the field of hybrid rice research. He devotes himself to the research of hybrid rice. He has successively developed three-line hybrid rice, two-line hybrid rice and super hybrid rice in the first and second stages. At the same time, Yuan Longping put forward and implemented the project of "three-yield and four-high-yield" by using super hybrid rice. Published 6 Monographs in Chinese and English, and published more than 60 papers. In July 2017, he was appointed Chief Professor of Qingdao Seawater Rice Institute. In September 2017, Yuan Longping announced a new achievement in removing heavy metal cadmium from rice.On April 14, 2018, Yuan Longping expressed his views on GM in an interview with Phoenix Finance and Economics in Hainan. For GM soybeans, Yuan Longping pointed out that as long as GM crops passed the safety test, there would be no problem. Yuan Longping said that genetically modified agriculture is the future direction of development.