By Yang Yuan-ting / Staff reporterFour universities with plant medicine programs have initiated a petition to support the term “plant doctor” for the draft “plant doctor act,” which passed a first review by the Legislative Yuan’s Economics Committee in November last year.
SEMANTIC DISPUTE: ‘Plant care technician’ was ruled out by farmers, while physicians and a plant medicine professor disagreed over the standard use of the termBy Yang Yuan-ting and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, staff writer, with CNA
Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) said Tuesday that New Zealand will soon remove its prohibition on imported Taiwanese mangoes, which was imposed after it found live fly larvae in a shipment of lychees and mangoes from Taiwan in June.