China's Xi honours model workers on May Day eve

Grand Agriseeds Technology Inc announced that it will invest RMB 60 million to set up a joint venture with 11 companies including Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Co Ltd, Hefei Fengle Seed Co Ltd and Winall Hi Tech Seed Co Ltd, holding a 20% ...

Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu (right) and agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", check a crop in Sanya, Hainan province, on Tuesday. They announced the launch of a project to breed new super rice strains ...

The "super rice," one of the most productive in the world, was developed by Chinese scientist Yuan Longping. [File photo] A "super rice" hybrid will be the central exhibit of the China Pavilion at the World Expo 2015 in Milan, officials said ...

Professor Yuan Longping, , China's National Treasure, is an agriculturist, scientst, educator and multi-millionaire. Four planets and a college in China had been named after him, the first time that the name of a Chinese scientist has become an ...

Wasting rice is a crime. Farmers work very hard to produce rice, Professor Yuan Longping, the keynote speaker at the 1st National Hybrid Rice Congress at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Munoz, Nueva Ecija, said. Considered as ...

China will launch a special scientific research project to develop a new super rice strain, expected to produce a bumper harvest of 14.9 metric tons a hectare, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said on Tuesday. The project, to be undertaken by ...

Four companies plan to ally with China National Seed Group Co., Ltd. and other seven companies that are dedicated to hybrid rice to sign a framework agreement on building a platform for the molecular breeding of hybrid rice. The four companies ...

In 1968, when I was in high school, a book titled The Population Bomb was published. The author, Paul Erlich, began the book with this statement: The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to ...