People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America  1 

it. Some people eat almost  2   but rice. Rice is a kind of crop. There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Rice  3   in many countries, even in the south of the United States and in eastern Australia.

China is the world’s largest rice-growing country. In 2003, China grew 166 million tons of rice. But it’s not easy to feed the world’s  4   population. In the 1960s, thousands of Chinese died because they didn’t have  5   food to eat. In the 1970s, Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, grew a new kind of rice called hybrid (杂交) rice. It makes 20% more rice than any  6  kind. Hybrid rice is a stronger plant, unlike ordinary rice. It can grow in the place with lots of water  7   in the place without much water. It doesn’t easily get diseases or worms.

Today, half of China’s rice plants  8   Yuan’s special hybrid rice. China uses Yuan’s hybrid rice to grow  9   rice than before. Yuan is known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. He  10   the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people.

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