The Man Who Puts An End to Hunger

Yuan Longping, the renowned and respected Chinese scientist often taken for a farmer, has found the world a way out of famine. Undeterred by the prevailing ignorance of heterosis in rice and other self-pollinating plants, he has dedicated himself to research into hybrid rice and other self-pollinating plants, he has dedicated himself into research into hybrid rice since the 1960s, and his feats have won him the accolade 'father of hybrid rice' and earned him the honor of being made foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.