"I had a dream,
Dreaming that my rice grows taller than sorghum,
The tassel is longer than a broomstick.
The sun is shining,
My colleague and I sat under that ear of rice to cool off..."
October 16
It is the 41st World Food Day
Today, it's hard not to think of him
--Yuan Longping
When the wind blows through the rice paddies
When the garden is full of rice flowers
When there is steaming rice in the bowl
When the mountains and rivers are unharmed, famine is far away
We always think of him
Thinking of this makes the whole Chinese people
People who can eat enough to eat a good meal
August 1953
Yuan Longping graduated from university
Obey the national unified distribution
He taught at Anjiang Agricultural School in Huaihua District, Hunan Province
In the same year, he was assigned to the remote and backward
Teaching at Anjiang Agricultural School in the foothills of Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan Province
Early 1960s
China suffered three years of natural disasters
People were seen starving on the side of the road, on the edge of the field and under the bridge
Yuan Longping was deeply stung by these sights
Determined to use agricultural science to defeat hunger
So he turned to rice breeding, which was most needed by the country
One day in July 1961
Yuan Longping found that a rice plant had as many as 230 grains
He calculated that he would use this rice plant as a seed
Rice acres will yield thousands of catties
At that time, the high yield of rice was only five or six hundred catties
<h5>Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Zhongjing</h5>
At the time, the world's authoritative genetics believed
Rice does not have a hybrid advantage
However, Yuan Longping continued to select seeds in the experimental field
Discovery of a "natural male sterile strain" in 1964
After that, he spent 9 years
The hybrid rice "three-line matching method" was finally successful
The yield is about 20% higher than that of conventional rice
A historic breakthrough in hybrid rice was achieved
<h5>Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ping</h5>
From 1976 to 1987
China's hybrid rice production has increased by more than 100 million tons
The increase in rice production each year can feed more than 60 million people
China became the first in the world
Successful use in production
Country with rice hybrid advantages
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Guosheng
2004 "Moving China"
The award speech to Yuan Longping once wrote
"He's a real cultivator.
When he was a village teacher,
Already has the audacity to subvert the authority of the world;
When he was famous all over the world,
But still just focus on the field,
Indifferent to fame and fortune, a farmer,
Sow wisdom and reap abundance.
His lifelong dream was to keep all people away from hunger. ”
<h5>Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Jusheng</h5>
In 2020, China's grain self-sufficiency rate will exceed 95%
The average grain share of Chinese reached about 470 kg
It is 209 kg higher than when new China was founded in 1949
126% increase
Rice accounts for about 25 per cent of the total grain area sown
Contributed nearly 32% of production
About 50% of these are hybrid rice
These foods feed hundreds of millions of people
<h5>Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Zhongzhi</h5>
In the moment when we rejoice and do not have to starve
Yuan Longping also sounded the alarm bell
I have experienced the pain of food shortages
Yuan Longping's generation
Especially cherished for food
In 2013, Yuan Longping said in an interview
"We worked hard to increase rice yields
It is difficult to increase 10 catties or 5 catties per acre
After increasing the yield, it is wasted again
'Who knows the plate of Chinese food, the grains are hard'
Waste is not only shameful, it is a crime."
Yuan Longping has always had a dream
This dream is slowly becoming a reality
Recently, 15 acres of "giant rice" in Dazu District, Chongqing
Shiwan Town Changhong Village trial planting success,
It is expected that the yield per mu can reach more than 1600 jin.
It is understood that the height of this batch of "giant rice"
Twice as much as conventional rice,
The average height of a rice plant is about 2 meters tall.
"Giant rice" not only has thick and tall rice stalks,
Also resistant to flooding, salt and alkali,
And it can bring sufficient nutrition to the plant,
Shade aquatic products and mammals
Provide the best habitat.
The rice field where the "giant rice" is located can also hold water,
Through the "rice-fish symbiosis" project, farmers are helped to increase production and income.
now
Yuan Longping's "Cool Dream under the Grass"
It's happening step by step
And he could no longer see
May 22, 2021
After creating one miracle after another
This ninety-year-old
The old man who is still busy in the field
Leave peacefully
Left us forever
Open the textbook
We can see pictures of him
He and Rice were always together
No matter how many traces the years leave behind
Walk through the night of thousands of fireworks
The smell of food wafts from home
We think of him again from time to time
From fullness to every meal
To the rice bowl of the Chinese
On this road
All over his footprints
The best way to commemorate Yuan Longping
It is to cherish every grain
On the occasion of the 41st World Food Day
We have an initiative for all of you
"A porridge and a meal, when thinking is not easy to come by."
Half a thread, half a wisp, constant thoughts and material resources are difficult"
"Cherish food Start now
Start with every disc action."
<h4>(Original title: World Food Day 丨 Yuan Longping's "Dream of Cooling under the Grass" has been realized! ）</h4>
<h4>Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph</h4>
<h4>Process Edit: TF060</h4>