"National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) and the Tainan county government signed an agreement...to set up a research and development center in the Taiwan Orchid Plantation, located in southern Taiwan county.
Tainan Magistrate Su Huan-chih... noted that Tainan County had the biggest plantation areas in the nation... rely on technical support from the academic sector to overcome problems encountered by the agricultural sector. ... in addition to the NCHU, the National University of Kaohsiung would also sign an agreement with the county government to set up a facility in the plantation... Coupled with the Biotechnology Experiment Center in Southern Taiwan set up by Academia Sinica, the highest research institute in Taiwan, Tainan County could become a platform for cooperation between the industrial and academic sectors, which... would help to attract national-level projects to the county. ... if Taiwan could use its edge in agricultural production, the gross profits could... surpass those of electronic products" URL : http://au.biz.yahoo.com/071213/17/1j4im.html ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
