RIP YLP
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Tributes are flowing for agronomist Yuan Longping following his death on Saturday.
Yuan – known as the “father of hybrid rice” – is a household name in China.
He developed the world’s first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.
A fifth of the rice grown globally is hybrid rice, meaning th...