Yuan Longping grows 61 is called super hybrid rice. This special strain of rice makes it possible 62 (produce) 20% more of the crop in the same fields.
Born in 1930, Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice 63 (be) his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the output. At that time, hunger was a 64 (disturb) problem. Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests 65 expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce about 56 million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, 66 , nearly 200 million tons of rice was produced. These 67 (increase) harvests mean now 225 of the world’s people 68 (feed) from 7% of the farmland in the world.Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed 69 (country) to increase their rice harvest. 70 (use) his hybrid rice, famers are producing harvests twice as large as before.