Leafy vegetables are very popular foodstuffs in Taiwanese diet due to easy cooking and tasty flavor. Recently, two newly-risen leafy vegetables, i.e. leafy radish ”Taichung No.1” and edible rape ”Jin-Bao-Taichung No.3” have been developed by Taichung DARE. These two newly released varieties are suitable for sowing all year round in Taiwan lowland areas, and have been transferred to private seed companies, thus offering farmers alternative in deciding what leafy vegetable varieties to grow. Future research directions in breeding leafy vegetable crops will focus on the breeding of F1 hybrid with such superior characteristics as functional effects, pest and disease resistance, etc., all based on the market-oriented objectives.