BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Fulfilling the mission of the late Dr. Borlaug, The Norman Borlaug Institute strives to improve global food security and elevate small-holder farmers out of poverty.

Hybrids for rice first surfaced during the 1970s when Dr Yuan Longping and his team averted a catastrophic famine in China making it the biggest rice producer in the world.

In 2004, Longping’s many achievements earned him the World Food Prize, an honor created by Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning American scientist known as the “Father of the Green Revolution ...

When most scientists maintained that ‘rice could not be crossbred or hybridised’, Dr Yuan Longping, ... During the 1960s, the productivity of two other staples - wheat and maize - increased when ...

Yuan Longping Father of hybrid rice. Rice occupies — and will continue to occupy — a pivotal place in global food and livelihood security systems. Of the annual world production of 596.485 million Mg ...

Yuan Longping's work in 1970's has improved the yield of rice 20% more than all other conventional varieties including high-yielding varieties ... CYMMIT, Norman Borlaug and Wheat Productivity. While ...

Yuan Longping was born on 7 September 1930 in Beiping, ... Norman E. Borlaug (1914–2009) In the summer of 1961, Yuan discovered a stalk of hybrid rice in the wild. In 1964, ...

Yuan Longping, internationally known as the ‘father of hybrid rice,’ passed away on May 22, at the age of 91. Tributes have been pouring in from across China, where Mr. Yuan is a national celebrity, ...

Rice researcher Yuan Longping, at center in 2017, in a field of hybrid rice in northern China. ... Norman Borlaug, U.S. scientist who launched Green Revolution, dies at 95. Comments.

BEIJING, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on Yuan Longping: On May 22, Yuan Longping, the renowned Chinese scientist who helped lift countless people out of hunger ...