The team's experiment a success, the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen set up Fushou Shan and Wuling farms and consulted with the Forestry Department in allocating to veterans who had worked on the Cross-Island Highway a portion of the lands along the highway for cultivation as fruit orchards.
試種成功後，為了安頓開闢橫貫公路的榮民，行政院退除役官兵輔導委員會，除了規劃福壽山農場和武陵農場，還協商林務局，撥出橫貫公路沿途的部分林地給榮民開墾果園。