Faced with the need for restructuring within agriculture and the threat of imports, Yu's new post is considered a "hot potato." But he is confident, expressing the desire to "serve as midwife" to a first-class agricultural sector on Taiwan.
在內有農地亟待改革，外有進口農產品的威脅下，余玉賢此時接掌農委會，多數人認為他接到一個「燙手山芋」；而他卻信心十足地表示要為台灣一流的農業「接生」。