No. 2 Chinese scientists grow rice in Dubai desert
A team of Chinese scientists led by Yuan Longping, renowned as the “father of hybrid rice,” produced and harvested rice in the Dubai desert, with a top yield of 500 kilograms per mu (666 square meters). This comes as a world first in successfully planting rice in a tropical desert, with China contributing to the environmental improvement of desert regions.
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