DALIAN, China -- Yuan Longping, China's leading rice researcher and an agronomist who dedicated his life to food security after living through the Great Leap Forward, died on Saturday at age 90, according to media reports in China.
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Yuan Longping, rice researcher who helped feed China, dies at 90
Father of hybrid strains spent half a century fending off hunger
Yuan Longping, China's father of hybrid rice, has died at age 90. In 1996 he received the Nikkei Asia Prize, which honored those who have contributed to the development and prosperity of Asia. (Photo by Daisuke Harashima)
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