“When Covid-19 hit, the number of tourists dropped to a very low level, just like a trickle. We are struggling to make a living. How do we feed the horses?”, Ms. Begum talk to AFP . During last year’s blockade, 41 horses, including Begum’s eight, died, she added. Dozens of horses in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, starve to death because their owners can’t afford to feed them. Photo: AFP. At Cox’s Bazar, people often keep horses to rent to tourists when they go out on the beach. The owners of the horses say they are struggling to have enough money to buy hay for their cattle. Some owners have freed their horses, in the hope that they can make a living on their own. Not to mention raising cattle, horse owners here say they also struggle to feed their families. Many people, including Ms. Begum, have to borrow money from small lending companies to make ends meet. “Every week, employees of the loan company come to my house to collect installment loans. But, if tourists don’t come to Cox’s Bazar, I don’t have the money to pay,” Begum said, adding that she borrowed about $1,200. Dozens of horse riders, often hired by horse owners to teach tourists how to ride, have turned to cart drivers or masons. Like many other countries, Bangladesh is struggling with a new wave of Covid-19. The health system is bearing the brunt, and lockdowns have been imposed across the country.

A stream of Chinese people wearing raincoats stood on both sides of the road while a convoy carried the body of Yuan Longping from the hospital to the funeral home in Trường Sa, Hunan province on May 22. Photo: Xinhua Special Citizens The passing of Mr. Yuan Longping – a special citizen of China in the early afternoon yesterday (May 22, 2021) attracted the attention of the world’s media because he was the father of various breeds. hybrid rice with high yield, contributing to feed nearly 1/5 of the world’s population and making a great contribution to global food security. Mr. Yuan Longping was awarded the highest honor of the Republic of China. He was also the one who lit the torch to open the 2008 Beijing Olympic event. Photo: Chinadaily Sheet The Straits Times of Singapore writes: Today how to feed more than 1.4 billion mouths in the world’s second-largest economy remains a major task for Chinese policymakers. Especially in light of consumer demand for more foods and global tensions impacting grain trade. At the end of last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping still called on the country to maintain the “sense of a crisis in food security”, and asked local governments to launch related campaigns and campaigns. Restaurants increase penalties for food waste. By 2020, the hybrid rice developed by Mr. Vien Long Binh’s team continues to break records, reaching 1,500 kg/mu (about 22.5 tons/ha) in two growing seasons, marking a new world record. According to the sheet Washington Post, Worldwide, one-fifth of the total rice yield today comes from varieties created by the father of hybrid rice Vien Long Binh. In June 2020, Mr. Vien’s research team embarked on a trial planting of hybrid rice in a field 2,800 meters above sea level in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, northwest China. The last time agronomist Vien Long Binh appeared in the field was in March of this year when he went to check the field of hybrid rice in Hainan Island and he was repeatedly hospitalized until his death yesterday. . Honoring the people who are attached to rice all their lives Associated Xinhua News Agency Beijing may fly its flag at half-mast to honor Mr. Yuan’s great contributions to Chinese agriculture. Previously, on September 29, 2019, just before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Yuan was awarded the “Order of the Republic”, the highest honor in the country. country for its outstanding contribution to the food security, agriculture of China, as well as the world. Young Chinese people holding flowers wait in line to reserve the place where Mr. Vien Long Binh’s funeral will be held. Photo: Xinhua Mr. Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing, graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Not long after a severe nationwide famine in the 1960s, the young scientist was determined to research how to increase the production of rice, a staple food for more than 60% of the Chinese people. And then he began a special lifelong relationship with rice. Mr. Vien Long Binh has achieved many achievements in research and production of the world’s first high-yielding hybrid rice varieties since 1973, which can achieve yields above 500 kg/mu (about 0.067 ha), compared to with the previous only 300 kg/mu. Over the next four decades, Mr. Vien led his students to continue researching and developing hybrid rice varieties with increasing yields. In 1996, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China officially established the breeding program of super hybrid rice. And just four years later, the first phase of the target reached 10.5 tons/ha. This record was broken three more times when it increased to 12 tons in 2004, 13.5 tons in 2011 and 15 tons/ha in 2014. Not only stopping at mainland China, Mr. Vien’s hybrid rice during this period was widely grown in more than 40 countries, including the US, Brazil, India, Vietnam, the Philippines and Madagascar. According to the Xinhua News Agency , the total area of ​​hybrid rice has reached 8 million hectares abroad thanks to the contributions of Mr. Vien and his associates who have worked with dozens of countries around the world to solve the problems of food security as well as the situation of poor people. Malnutrition.