Taiwan Agricultural Research institute

Taiwan Agricultural Research institute

Parent institution	Ministry of Agriculture (Taiwan)
Founder(s)	Government-General of Taiwan
Established	1895
Head	Lin Hsueh-shih (林學詩)[1]
Location	Wufeng District , Taichung , Taiwan
Website	www.tari.gov.tw/english/

The Taiwan Agricultural Research institute is a research institute in Taiwan under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Taiwan Agricultural Research institute (TARI) was founded in 1895 by the Government-General of Taiwan during Japanese rule.^[2]

TARI began to study watermelon in the 1950s and has developed numerous varieties.^[3]

TARI has engaged in significant pineapple breeding since the Japanese colonial period with the Tainung No. 1 being introduced in 1934.^[4] The variety Tainung No. 23 (bred from Tainung No. 19 and Tainung No. 21) smells like mangos and is well adapted to Taiwan's environment.^[5]

In 2019 TARI released a heat tolerant green onion variety intended to allow farmers in the south of Taiwan to produce green onions in the summer.^[6]

Research into the sweet potato at the Chiayi research station began in 1922.^[7]

In 1991 the World Vegetable Center (WVC) chose to end its sweet potato research due to high costs and other institutions with a tighter focus coming into existence. The WVC duplicated and transferred its research and germplasm to the International Potato Center and Taiwan Agricultural Research institute.^[8]

The institute has developed a bruise resistant variety of strawberry called Tainung No. 1.^[1]

• Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Station^[5]
• Fengshan Tropical Horticultural Experiment Branch^[6]
• The Taiwan Agricultural Research institute maintains a "doomsday bunker" hardened against military attack which houses samples of all crops grown in Taiwan^[9]

• Agriculture in Taiwan
• Taiwan Banana Research Institute
• Taiwan Sugar Research Institute
• Tea Research and Extension Station