To save these native animals, which have lived on the same piece of earth with us for so many years, and to preserve their genes with all their unique characteristics, the R.O.C. Council of Agriculture in 1987 initiated an agriculture, forestry, fishing and livestock breed-preservation program.
為了搶救這些和我們同在一塊土地生活的土畜禽，也留下它們身上可貴的「土本領」基因，行政院農業委員會在民國七十六年展開農林漁牧保種計畫。