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About Võ Tòng Xuân
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- Võ Tòng Xuân (born 6 September 1940) is former Provost of Tân T?o University (TTU), the former rector of An Giang University (AGU) and the former vice rector of Can Tho University.
- He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2002 until 2010.He is known throughout southern Vietnam as Dr.
- Rice (as in a medical doctor) because of a popular television show which he presented that taught farmers better techniques for growing and cultivating rice.
- He was also instrumental in the eradication of the brown planthopper bug which, throughout the 1970s was destroying paddy rice.
- Part of the problem in eradicating the bug infestation was the type of collectivization imposes on the farmers of southern Vietnam.
- He also helped to bring about reforms in the early 1980s that can be seen as catalysts to the Doi Moi reforms of 1986. His activities were a key driver of Vietnam becoming one of the world's largest rice exporters.
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