今天上午，湖南衡南县水稻基地传出好消息:袁隆平团队第三代杂交水稻测产测得晚稻平均亩产为911.7公斤，加上7月测得早稻平均亩产为619.06公斤，早稻加晚稻实现亩产3061斤，超过了1500公斤的目标。
After graduating in 1953， he worked as a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead， farmers needed to boost yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time. Yuan was convinced that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. A hybrid is a cross between two or more varieties of a species. One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually attain a higher yield than conventional crops. However， whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate. The common assumption then was that it could not be done. Through intense effort， Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their output greatly.
这位梦想着“让杂交水稻覆盖全球”，生前帮助全球多个国家数百万人民缓解饥饿的“杂交水稻之父”，逝世后受到了世界各国媒体和民众的致敬悼念。路透社报道称，袁隆平在上世纪70年代研究出首个杂交水稻品种，令全球许许多多的人远离了饥饿。
The globally renown agronomist known for developing the first hybrid rice strains was born on the ninth day of the seventh month in 1930， according to the lunar calendar.
郑州市第九十三中学师生用“光盘”祭奠袁老痛悼袁隆平1930-2021他是一名真正的耕耘者，播种者，救人者，建功者，博爱者，智慧者。他是我国研究和发展杂交水稻的开创者，是世界上第一个成功利用水稻杂种优势的科学家。
