為降低我國加入GATT後對農業所造成的衝擊,行政院農委會於八十二年度開始輔導花卉與蔬菜等七項產業組織產銷班,本場為配合政府政策及加強蔬菜與花卉班之輔導,動員農業推廣中心同仁進行產銷班基本資料調查。在八十二年度臺中地區已整合登記的產銷班計有花卉109班、蔬菜227班。經本場調查結果發現,其中約81%歸農會輔導;19%在合作社場及公所下運作,惟部分班隊之輔導單位仍有重疊。依主要經營作物別來看,花卉班以經營國蘭類、百合、玫瑰、唐菖蒲及滿天星者較多,蔬菜班則以種植花椰菜、茭白筍、絲瓜、竹筍、番茄、茄子、菜豆、西瓜、苦瓜、胡瓜等較普遍。就產銷班之共同設備而言,除集貨場及聚會用桌椅外,其餘甚為缺乏。班會召開次數以一年6次最多且往往利用集貨場、班長家及活動中心和農會等地舉行。至於班產品則以寄交大都市批發市場為主。
Seven kinds of production-marketing groups, including groups of flowers and vegetables were supervised by COA (Council of Agriculture) since 1993 to reduce the impact of attending GATT in future. In order to carry out the government's program of assisting farmers and enhancing the function of production-marketing groups of flowers and vegetables, a project of collecting basic data from the groups was conducted by staff of Extension Center of Taichung DAIS.The result showed that 109 groups of flowers and 227 groups of vegetables registered at Taichung district were integrated by Taichung DAIS in 1993. And among those registered groups 81% was assisted by Farmers' Association, while the other 19% was assisted by cooperative farm. However, there were overlaps of group within them.In the category of the cultivated plants, farmers of flowers group preferred Chinese cymbidium, lily, rose, gladiolus and baby's breath than others flower crops, while farmers of vegetables group preferred cauliflowers, co-ba, vegetable sponge, bamboo shoot, tomato, eggplant, kidney bean, watermelon, bitter gourd, and cucumbers than other vegetable crops.As the facilities of production-marketing group, meeting room, tables and chairs are the most popular than other equipment. The highest nummber of group meeting is 6/yearly, the common meeting location is at group leader's house, activity center or Farmers' Association. Most of the group prouducts is sent to wholesale market of big city.