Recently Yuan Longping old Mr. ninety birthday news attention, the father of hybrid rice are already ninety years old, think back to the beginning of the day, food is not enough to eat the days away from us has been very far. In the past, no matter which era, there will be people due to poverty, natural disasters and other issues and starve to death, especially for farmers, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, wind and rain, sun and rain, for this food, but in the end, but the farmers are not well-fed.
Secondly, the previous food production is still low, if then a natural disaster, then basically that year's food don't expect to have much. So in times when there wasn't enough food, people would eat grass and bark to get through the desperate year. Not surprisingly, in the past, there would be "raise a fat pig a thousand kilograms and more, brain grain bucket big, slaughtered one as three, three feet of pot can not cook, six feet of pot cooking half. Single-season rice mu yield more than three thousand, grain soybean big, picked a bucket and a bucket." The proverb is now available.
Now, since the emergence of hybrid rice, food production has risen dramatically, and people do not have to worry about three meals. The so-called economic foundation determines the superstructure, the farmers' basic needs are satisfied before they have the energy and time to think about the spiritual pursuit. It is only then that the present-day farmers dancing to strengthen the body, farmers will have time to travel to see the country's great rivers and mountains, to increase knowledge.
Hybrid rice for farmers to provide not only the security of life, but also for farmers on the spiritual pursuit of the possibility. Providing farmers around the world with good seeds, more people in the world have enough to eat. It has reduced the scourge of disasters that arise from not having enough to eat, and has provided a lot of strength to the stability of the world.