However, patriotic sentiment takes second place to commercial considerations. The NTU researchers successfully developed shoot tip culture and stem cutting propagation methods for Actinidia, but the dominant position which New Zealand had already established for itself was seen as leaving no opportunity for Taiwan to enter the market, so the idea of developing the kiwifruit as a commercial crop was abandoned. NTU has merely continued with variety collection and research.
然而民族情感畢竟敵不過商業利益的考量，儘管當時台大已經研究出「芽頂組織培養法及插木法」，可以繁殖成功；但是後來看到紐西蘭所打下的江山，根本沒有台灣插針的縫了，就放棄了農業發展的可能，而只做品種的蒐集與研究。