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Yuan Longping
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Yuan Longping

Inventor · born September 7, 1930 · died 2021

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Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture.

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  1. ~71Received the Ramon Magsaysay Award2001
  2. ~74Received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture2004
  3. ~74Received the World Food Prize2004

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