At the request of Sinorama, one of the group's members, Li Chinlung, made the following report: In 1967 and 1970, the Council of Agriculture sent a seed collecting group to Central and South America, the South Pacific, and the Middle East.
本刊特別請團員之一的農委會園藝生產組科長李金龍，來談此行的經過和感想：到國外找種源，算來已經不是頭一次。民國五十六及五十九年，農委會就曾到過中南美、南太平洋及中東一帶搜羅種源。