In addition to being responsible for choosing the variety of silkworm, the MDARES still has to create a process for raising the silkworms, improve the varieties of mulberry providing the leaves, develop new methods of infecting the silkworms, and produce a manmade feed.
除了選種的重責大任外，未來苗栗農改場還要積極朝向建立整套養蠶的流程、桑葉品種的改良、感染方式的開發、發展人工飼料等方向努力。