“I hope that our hybrid rice will play a role in improving the food security in African countries,’’ he said. Today, his dream is coming true. With the efforts of many Chinese agricultural ...

Yuan once said he had two dreams -- to "enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men," and that hybrid rice would be grown all over the world to help solve the global food scarcity.

Screenshot from Xinhua report. May 22 marked the fourth anniversary of the passing of two of China's most revered scientists: Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice," and Wu Mengchao ...