中国工程院院士袁隆平先生被国际农学界誉为杂交水稻之父和作物杂种优势利用世界先驱科学家。他所发明的杂交水稻，人称“东方魔稻”，比常规水稻增产20%以上。自1976年开始推广至今，全国已累计种植30多亿亩，增产粮食3.7亿多吨，创造经济效益3700多亿元。另据统计，自1975年 Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is hailed as the world’s leading scientist by the international agronomy community as the father and hybrid crop of hybrid rice. He invented the hybrid rice, known as the “Oriental Magic Rice” than conventional rice yield more than 20%. Since it was introduced in 1976, more than 3 billion mu have been planted nationwide to increase grain output by more than 370 million tons and create more than 370 billion yuan of economic benefits. According to statistics, since 1975