USDA Agricultural Marketing Service AMS amended Origin of Livestock OOL requirements for dairy animals under USDA organic regulations to increase uniformity for organic dairy animals. Final rule governs how dairy producers transition animals into organic production.
KMT lawmakers seek interpretation over irrigation issue
By Wu Cheng-feng and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A group of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday sought a constitutional interpretation over the government’s move to nationalize irrigation associations.
The Legislative Yuan in July last year passed the Act of Irrigation (農田水利法) that converted 17 irrigation associations nationwide into a government body.
The Council of Agriculture in October last year inaugurated the Agency of Irrigation to oversee the associations, whose assets are valued at about NT$75.6 billion (US$2.67 billion).
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Alex Fai, front row, fifth right, and members of a group opposing the nationalization of the nation’s irrigation associations protest outside the Judicial Yuan in Taipei yesterday.
PTS Taigi rules are discriminatory
By Ho Hsin-han, Zheng An-zhu, and Tan Hong-hui 何信翰 鄭安住 陳豐惠
Hakka TV and Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV) used to be the only [non-Mandarin] mother-tongue TV stations in Taiwan, while there was no TV station dedicated to Hoklo (also known as Taiwanese), the mother tongue of the nation’s largest ethnic group, until the establishment of PTS Taigi, a digital TV station operated by the Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS) that is the nation’s first around-the-clock channel dedicated to Hoklo.
At first, PTS Taigi did not have a clearly defined organizational structure or level in the governmental hierarchy. The board of directors at the time approved a temporary structure based on that of the PTS Main Channel, with ministerial-level departments set up under the station’s director, making the PTS Taigi director equal to the Hakka TV and TITV directors, which was reasonable and legal.