Vo Tong Xuan

Vo Tong Xuan

Dr. Vo Tong Xuan is the current rector of An Giang University (AGU)and the former rector of Can Tho University. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation [ [http://www.rockfound.org/about_us/board.shtml The Rockefeller Foundation - Board of Trustees ] ] .

He is known throughout southern Vietnam as Dr. Rice because of a popular television show that he ran that taught farmers different tactics for growing and cultivating rice. This was one of the reasons that Vietnam went from a net importer of rice to one of the world's largest rice exporters.

He was also instrumental in the eradication of the brown planthopper bug which, throughout the 1970s was destroying rice crops [ [http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/102386/xuan.html In Person: Vo-Tong Xuan (Viet Nam) ] ] . Part of the problem in eradicating the bug infestation was the type of collectivization imposes on the farmers of southern Vietnam. He helped to bring about reforms in the early 1980s that can be seen as catalysts to the "doi moi" reforms of 1986.

Vo Tong Xuan is also a research fellow and trustee of the International Rice Research Institute [ [http://www.irri.org/about/august.asp IRRI] ] .

He has also been the recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1993 [ [http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationXuanVot.htm 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service - Vo-Tong Xuan ] ] .

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