The training of "Vegetable doctor" that tried the disease such as vegetables for farm products and appreciation to diagnostic and treatment started and Hosei University

The training of "Vegetable doctor" that tried the disease such as vegetables for farm products and appreciation to diagnostic and treatment started and Hosei University started in full scale by 2008 fiscal years in the course of learning the vegetable medicine science of the life science part that had been newly established Koganei inside the campus (Koganeishi). As the faculty education, the first in the country and it Iu.

It learns from the base of the pathologic and the herbology to technologies such as diagnostic and administering. New business Oi or invented "Vegetable medical science business theory" that learns Kao also : in urban greening and the home gardening field. The future, it aims at the foundation of "Plant disease academy" from which a across-the-board person brings the vegetable of morbus in to look after in the hospital for the person and the pet and treatment is received.

The purchase of a national qualification of "Plant protection person" is necessary for introducing of the vegetable doctor according to Hosei University after piling up a constant operational experience. There is a course when it aims at private qualification "Tree doctor" that foundation Japan Greenery Development and Research Center recognizes on the other hand, too. Mr. Kinuko of Haya Maeno (two years) speaks, "I want to keep making the best use of the vegetable in which person's desire is put as medical doctor in hospital of the plant disease academy".

- Hosei University life science part
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http://sankei.jp.msn.com/science/science/090603/scn0906031655001-n1.htm