YUAN Longping, the Father of Hybrid Rice, predicts his latest super-strain with higher yields will be widely planted by 2006.
Yuan, in his seventies, made the remarks on Monday at a celebration held in the central Hunan province in honour of his winning the World Food Prize in October for his outstanding work on hybrid rice.
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