THE RICE SEED MULTIPLICATION SYSTEM IN TAIWAN - 農業知識入口網

作者	The Plant Industry Division, JCRR
出版機關	農復會

The history of the program for rehabilitating the rice seed multiplication and distribution is as old as that of the whole JCRR program in Taiwan. In the spring of 1949, when the Headquarters of JCRR was still in Canton, Kwangtung Province of Mainland China, the undersigned, then a senior specialist of the Agricultural Improvement Division (now called Plant Industry Division), was delegated by Mr. Tien-ho Chien, then the Division Chief and since 1952 the Commissioner of JCRR, to Taiwan to find out fads on problems of Taiwan agriculture. After a month\'s stay and travelling in Taiwan, he returned to Canton and proposed that the following were among the most urgently needed measures to be taken up in the field of crop production in Taiwan: (1) the rehabilitation of the rice seed multiplication and distribution system, (2) the manufacture of crystal-violet vaccine for control of hog cholera, and (3) helping farmers to repair or reconstruct their compost shelters so they can make comp03t manure with rice straw and hog excreta. For stepping up rice production and hog raising and to improve the productivity of soil are very important. These three measures were among the very earliest batch of projects approved by the JCRR for the Taiwan program.