::: ::: 　　The aim of this Station is to fulfill the government's policy to pursue sustainable development of agriculture and to promote the farmer's welfare by means of research and extension. The following items of research and extension will be emphasized in the future. The Station will continue to study the yielding capacity and quality of the existing crops of economic importance, i.e. rice, sweet potato, Cassava, peanut, pears, sorosis, Chinese jujube, persimmon, citrus, grape, vegetables, Pleione formosana, and strawberry. Research on special crops of potential economic importance, such as wild vegetables, jelly-fig, health-food- type crops, and medicinal plants will be emphasized. Other fields of studies and extension work stressed are given in the followings: The winemaking technologies will be developed to brew wines of different kinds of fruits to solve the problem of over produced fruits. In this regard, a wine-processing laboratory together with a small wine-brewing laboratory were built. To find the new insect natural enemies and to study their rearing methods, while maintaining the colonies of the established insect predator for release to farms. A technique of using silkworm as baculovirus host to produce high value recombinant protein will be developed. Technology of bee keeping will be further improved to promote production and quality of honey and royal jelly. Techniques of fig-wasp raising will be further improved to enhance propagation of pollinator wasps. Management of farms in terms of the organization of production and marketing groups of various crops will be the main work of extension. In this connection, studies on post- harvest techniques such as grading and packing of the agricultural products will be much emphasized. Agro-tourism will be promoted by using the existing museums in the Station.