Since 1995 when Yang Po-wen, executive director of TSC's Biotech Division, began to lead the research team at the TSC Research Institute to develop Cordyceps sinensis, the price of sugar has been NT $ 14.5 a kilo, he says. When one compares this to the NT $ 20 price of a 0.4 gram capsule of Cordyceps, it is quite obvious where TSC's future lies.
台糖生技事業部執行長楊博文，從八十四年開始領著台糖研究所的研究團隊開發蟲草菌絲，他表示，一公斤的糖價是十四．五元，和一顆○．四公克、要價二十元的蟲草粉膠囊相比，台糖的未來在哪裡相當明顯。