Dr. Le Vinh Thao, a member of Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has received an award for “the Production of Life” from the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF).
This was the first time such an honourable award was given to a foreign expert.
Earlier, the two countries had signed a protocol on capital disbursement and financial management for the rice production development programme in Cuba from 2009-2015.
At the award ceremony in Havana on November 10, Thao expressed his gratitude for the award and pledged to further contribute to the implementation of Cuba’s plan to ensure food security.
Thao graduated from Marta Abreu University in the Central Cuba in 1973. Since 2002 he has joined the Vietnam-Cuba cooperation project on wet rice cultivation cooperation in households. The project is now entering its third phase after 6 provinces finished with a yield of 8-9 tonnes/ha, three times higher than before.