At the recommendation of the US, the CAPD enacted the Miniature Pig Breeding Plan in 1980, introducing 20 Lanyu miniature pigs (four males and 16 females, a 1: 4 ratio) to the Taitung Animal Propagation Station, to be raised in isolation on the mountain slopes of Beinan Township.
參考美方的建議，行政院農發會於 1980 年制訂了「迷你豬採種計畫」，大致以 1 : 5 的性別比例，將 4 公 16 母、共計 20 頭蘭嶼豬，引種至畜產試驗所台東種畜繁殖場，隔海放養在卑南鄉的山坡上。