Yuan Longping (1September 7, 930 -202 1), a native of De 'an County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, is an expert in hybrid rice breeding in China, a close friend of China, an outstanding representative of personages without party affiliation, a winner of the "Republic Medal" and an academician of China Academy of Engineering, and is known as the "father of hybrid rice in the world".
Yuan Longping's achievements.
For more than 20 years, he led the team to tackle key problems of super hybrid rice, and achieved large-scale demonstration of 10.5 ton, 12 ton, 13.5 ton and 13.5 ton per hectare in 2000, 2004 and 20/4 respectively. The newly bred third-generation hybrid rice Sanyou 1 has an average yield of 9 1 1.7 kg in 2020, and the average yield of the second-generation early hybrid rice is 6 19.06 kg, with an annual output of 1530.76 kg, thus realizing the rice yield per mu.