INTRODUCTION TO

TAINAN DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL 
RESEARCH & EXTENSION STATION, COA

FLORICULTURE

To enhance competitiveness in international markets, floriculture research and development focus on improving product quality, strengthening export market, developing indigenous varieties, and adopting protected facilities and new crops to achieve year-round production. Proper watering, fertilization, and post-harvest treatments enable farmers to grow spray mum, Oncidium and Anthurium.

Variety selection and breeding include heat tolerance and anti-rosette for Eustoma, good cut-flower’s traits and long vase life for sunflower, low vernalization requirement and early blooming for Statice, and fast growth and good potting traits for Spathiphyllum. X-ray irradiation induces dwarf Syngonium to produce more shoots. Native germplasm of ornamental trees and plants for cut-leaves are also collected to increase genetic diversity.

Stock is pushed to bloom more by low temperature treatment. A year-round production model is developed in the protected facilities. Farmers can produce high quality spray mum cut flowers in the winter and vegetables such as cherry tomato or cucumber in the summer. Besides, the station is also devoted to produce herbs, houseplants and orchids.

The "summer-vegetable, winter-flower" production system produces cucumber   in summer and spray mum in winter

Hybrid sunflower Tainan 1

Field of Statice breeding

Breeding of Eustoma

Stock for cut flower purpose

Collection of herb plants

High quality greenhouse Celosia

Yuinlin Branch Station conducts research on collecting and breeding of sunflower as cut flower, houseplant, landscaping plant, or manure. Ratoon cultivation and extended photoperiod are able to improve quality of Eustoma cut flowers. Other research includes holding and storage method to prolong the shelf life of cabbage plug seedlings, effect of different plastic tunnel material on seedlings of Solanum crops, and nursery technique for garden trees.

Propagation of variegated shellflower by liquid culture

In genetic diversity research, germplasm collection and evaluation of Oldham Elaeagnus, Gold-dust dracena, Bromeliads, indigenous calanthe orchids and indigenous Gramineae turgrass are conducted. Tissue culture technique is used in the propagation of native cut-leaf plants such as variegated shellflower, barroom plant, screw pine, and snake plant.

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