A commercial hybrid rice plant was produced a year later.

一年以后生产出了一株商业杂交水稻。

Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.

用他的杂交水稻种子，农民们种出的粮食比以前多了一倍。

The new hybrid rice, has been developed by the Yuan Longping Hightech Agricultural Company of China.

中国袁隆平高科技农业公司已开发出一种新的杂交水稻。

Both men were honoured for their work in the development of new hybrid rice plants which produce higher yields.

两位均因在研究高产量的新型杂交水稻方面取得进步而获奖。

He was called the father of hybrid rice.

他被称为杂交水稻之父。

Dr Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice.

袁隆平博士种植了所谓的超级杂交水稻。

The success established China's leading position in the global field of hybrid rice research.

这一成功奠定了中国在全球杂交水稻研究领域的领先地位。

A crop scientist at Hunan Agricultural University, Professor Yuan developed hybrid rice varieties that increased crop yields over 20 percent.

湖南农业大学作物科学家袁教授培育出杂交水稻品种， 使作物产量提高了 20% 以上。

In 1995, local farmers planted 20,000 hectares of two-line hybrid rice in 55 counties on a trial base.

1995年， 当地农民在55个县试种两系杂交水稻2万公顷。

Hybrid rice has since been grown across the country and farmers have reaped incredible output after switching to Yuan's hybrid varieties.

此后，杂交水稻在全国范围内种植，农民在改种袁的杂交品种后收获了惊人的产量。

Now the focus of Yuan's hybrid rice project has changed from increasing output to green and sustainable development.

现在，袁氏杂交水稻项目的重点已经从增产转向绿色可持续发展。

He made his breakthrough achievement in 1991 when he created a rice hybrid called New Rice for Africa (NERICA), by crossing Asian and African rice plants.

他在1991年取得突破通过杂交亚洲和非洲的水稻，创造了一种称为“非洲新水稻”（NERICA）的杂交水稻。

In 1986, Yuan brought up the hybrid rice breeding strategy from the three-line hybrid rice strain to a two-line, and later on to a one-line variety.

1986年， 袁提出杂交水稻的育种策略， 从三系杂交水稻品系到两系，再到单系品种。

Hybrid rice recorded an annual yield about 20 percent higher than that of conventional rice strains, meaning it could feed an extra 70 million people a year.

杂交水稻的年产量比传统水稻品种高出约 20%，这意味着它每年可以多养活 7000 万人。

Compared with its three-line predecessor, the two-line hybrid rice strain has higher yields and makes use of manpower and material resources more efficiently, according to rice experts.

与三系杂交水稻相比，两系杂交水稻产量更高， 人力和物力资源利用效率更高。

Mr. Yuan discovered a way to get rice plants to grow lots and lots of rice. He came up with a " hybrid" rice plant. Now, China can feed many people with this special rice.

袁先生发现了一种让水稻长出很多很多水稻的方法。他想出了一种“杂交”水稻植物。现在，中国可以用这种特殊的大米养活很多人。

From the Mekong River in Vietnam, Sumatra Island in Indonesia, Indus Plains in Pakistan, to the hilly valleys in Nigeria, hybrid rice has been promoted and introduced to dozens of countries and regions.

从越南的湄公河、印度尼西亚的苏门答腊岛、巴基斯坦的印度河平原， 到尼日利亚的丘陵山谷，杂交水稻已推广和引种到几十个国家和地区。