'Father of hybrid rice' still going strong

'Father of hybrid rice' still going strong

EIJING, China - Yuan Longping, the 84-year-old "father of hybrid rice," speaks in an interview in Changsha, Hunan Province, south-central China, on Sept. 26, 2014. He is so called for trebling the rice crop per hectare in some 40 years.

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