It occurred to Chou that he could perhaps increase the fallow land area to 10 hectares and concentrate on the more productive land. He also decided to make personnel cuts because payroll accounted for 40 % of the farm's expenses. He figured that if he increased the fallow area he didn't need to employ so many temporary workers.
周俊吉思索，也許先將休耕面積擴大至 10 公頃，把生產力專注於幾塊產量較高的耕地上；其次是調整人力，當時農場僱用 30 位員工，人事成本佔了 40％，如果擴大休耕面積，就不需僱用太多臨時工。