World Food Prize Winner

This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

This VOA Special English Agriculture Report was written by Mario Ritter. This is Steve Ember.

Mister Borlaug knows something about major prizes. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in nineteen-seventy. He received the award for his work to develop more productive agriculture.

Scientists from China and Sierra Leone are the winners of this year's World Food Prize. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. led by Secretary of State Colin Powell last Monday. Chinese Professor Yuan Longping and Monty Jones will share the two-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar prize. Both men are being honored for work they did to improve rice production in developing countries. Two-thousand-four is the International Year of Rice.

Norman Borlaug first developed the idea of a world food prize. He wanted to honor people who increased food production to help feed the growing world population.