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'Father of hybrid rice' awarded World Food Prize 2004

Chinese Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering was announced in Washington DC on March. 29 co-winner of World Food Prize of 2004 with grain expert Monty Jones of Sierra Leone.


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Yuan Longping (L) and Monty Jones (R)
(World Food Prize Foundation photo)


Chinese Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering was announced in Washington DC on March. 29 co-winner of World Food Prize of 2004 with grain expert Monty Jones of Sierra Leone.

President of World Food Prize Foundation praised the two rice experts at the ceremony held at US State Department as "having achieved scientific breakthrough in order to enhance the grain security of trillions of Asian and African people". He added that it is especially important for the two rice scientists to receive the prize in 2004, the United Nations (UN) International Rice Year, since rice is currently the staple of about three billion people worldwide.

Yuan Longping, dubbed "father of hybrid rice" is Director-General of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center.

Monty Jones from Sierra Leone, former senior rice breeder at the West Africa Rice Development Center (WARDA), is now Executive Secretary of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).

The prize was created in 1986 by Dr. Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in developing new technologies for feeding the hungry. The award recognizes people who help improve the quality or availability of food throughout the world.

By People's Daily Online


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