When Academician Yuan Longping passed away, heaven and earth mourned for him, and the whole world was sad for him. His contribution to the world was to double the yield of grain per acre, thus solving the problem of feeding a large number of people.
Food is the most important thing for people. This is a universal truth. Human beings can survive only if they have enough to eat. It is unknown how many casualties will be caused by famine and the killings caused by famine. Once people can't even solve the problem of food, they can do anything. How many uprisings and rebellions in Chinese history took desperate risks because the people were running out of food. Peace and stability should be what people and governments around the world want most.
As the world's population surges and the amount of arable land decreases due to human progress, food security has increasingly become a top priority for many countries. The only way to solve the human food problem is to increase the yield of the land, and that is exactly what Academician Yuan Longping did. It is precisely because of Academician Yuan Longping's decades of hard work that the rice yield per mu has increased from a few hundred kilograms to more than 1,000 kilograms now, allowing the same amount of cultivated land to feed a larger population. Many new rice varieties and new planting and management techniques developed by it have been promoted and applied in many countries around the world, benefiting the people of these countries. Is there any greater contribution to the world than enabling more people in the world to have enough to eat? I think it’s gone.
Mr. Yuan directly and indirectly feeds no less than billions of people. One China, plus other countries in the world using hybrid rice technology to solve food problems, there will be at least several billion people, and the future increase in population is incalculable. number of people. The United States once calculated with Mr. Yuan that one person is worth 300 billion U.S. dollars. The United States once poached him and mentioned his name for the Nobel Prize in Medicine or the Nobel Prize in Biology, but he was rejected by Mr. Yuan. You can read the memoirs written by some people. , there is a paragraph recorded in it. If Mr. Yuan collects patent fees, he will become the world's largest super rich man. No one can surpass him, and no one will surpass him in the future. If calculated according to the current market value, he alone is worth several trillion to 10 trillion US dollars. After all, people must live on food. There are 7 billion people in the world, and the number of rice-eating people in the southern hemisphere is 2.5-3.5 billion, and there will be more in the future. The population is simply immeasurable. China is actually the largest exporter of seeds in the world. It exports a large amount of grain seeds and uses them for domestic use. The profits Mr. Yuan has created for China are immeasurable.
Without agriculture, food security is the cornerstone of a country’s stability. This is true for China, and it is true for other countries around the world.