It also boasted a hard-working population, a superior economic environment to that in Southeast Asia, small farms, and encouragement from the government as a matter of policy. Thus Taiwan was deemed suitable for hosting a vegetable research center, and it was also hoped that it could fully support the center's efforts to use its research results to help other developing countries.
台灣地處亞熱帶，人民勤勞，而整體經濟環境優於東南亞國家，並且台灣都是小農精耕，政策上也受到鼓勵，非常適合做為蔬菜研究的腹地，再以此研究結果，幫助其他國家的農民。