Essential Achievements in Research and Extension

Taoyuan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Ministry of Agriculture

Vegetable Improvements

To improve vegetable cultivars of economical importance and cultural practices in simply equipped
house in northern Taiwan.
●Developed and released new cultivars of water bamboo Taoyuan No.1 and Taoyuan No. 2.
●Developed new varieties with technology tranfer including lettuce Taoyuan No.1,Taoyuan No.2 and
green onion Taoyuan No. 4.
●Developed cultural techniques such as plug seedling, basket cultured sweet pepper, tomato and
western pumpkin…etc.
●Cultivated the certified seeds of Sichuan mustard and planted over 400 ha each year.
●Developed the flexible PE plug tray ,that reduced more than two-third of the labor cost required for
transplanting.
●Developed water-saving cultural techniques for leafy vegetables.
●Studied fast cultural techniques for seedling vegetables to cope with vegetable demand-and-supply
problem during the typhoon season.