[CNA Reporter  Te-Tsang Liu, Bangkok, 05/17]

Today, in order to promote international collaboration, a delegation from CCU’s ASEAN and South Asia Research Center introduced to Kasetsart University the latest pest control technology  and visited The Bangkok Christian Hospital, in hopes of further collaboration in the future.

CCU OIA Vice Dean and Director of the ASEAN and South Asia Research Center Chin-Chin Cheng led a team of experts from Taiwan and Thai-based collaborators to visit sister school Kasetsart University’s senior advisor Ampol Senanarong.

CCU agricultural expert Dr. I-Yan Wu introduced the latest agricultural technology, a Chinese herbal medicine formula to prevent crop pests and diseases and maintain the completeness of the cultivation of organic products. TCC Group agricultural consultant Cheng-Ming Chang and Overseas Chinese Alliance chairman Ming-Fang Chen provided additional explanation.

Former Thailand Privy Council Lord Anpeng noted that, throughout Thai agricultural development, the greatest problem facing organic cultivation has always been pest control. Though Thailand currently uses Japanese technology, it is very interested in the research results indicating that using a Chinese herbal medicine formula can eliminate pests. As highly effective agriculture and biotechnology are two of the ten major industries Thailand 4.0 is targeting for growth, perhaps there will be opportunities for collaboration with CCU.

In the afternoon, Chin-Chin Cheng led the team to Bangkok Christian Hospital. Both Taiwan and Thailand are facing an aging population, making elderly service-related industries the important future industries. CCU has long been investing in aging-related research and hopes to have fruitful dialogue with Bangkok Christian Hospital while exploring possibilities for future collaboration.

Chin-Chin Cheng noted that this trip to Thailand was primarily, in line with the government’s New Southbound Policy, to explore viable international opportunities for collaboration. The trip was thus an initial exploration into the response and needs of Thai institutions and to find direction and areas of mutual collaboration, in hopes of sharing new technologies and research results from Taiwan with other Southeast Asian and South Asian nations.

[News Source: CNA]