In the late 1980s, the biggest crisis faced by the center was that some figures in the international agricultural community began to suggest that it would be best to establish an additional center elsewhere, to gradually supersede the Taiwan center, because of worries over the center's future in a country that was widely barred from most other international organizations.
八○年後期最大的危機則在於，國際農業界有人認為，亞蔬設在處處受抵制的台灣終究是一隱憂，最好另外成立一個中心，逐漸取代在台的亞蔬。