The Puli branch station located at Yuchi, Nantou County, is 625 meters above sea level with approximately 16.7 hectares of land for field experiments. The main tasks of this Branch Station are to improve the varieties of slope land crops, to develop farming systems of various crops which can be used for slope land agriculture, and to develop specific new techniques for flower, vegetable, fruit, herbal plants and other economic crops. Currently, breeding orchid varieties, and improving their production systems are the main research activities of this station. Important breeding research achievements include the completion of Tomato 'Taichung Asveg No. 4' and 'Taichung Asveg No. 10', water bamboo 'Taichung No. 1', Dendrobium 'Taichung No. 1', 'Taichung No. 2' and 'Taichung No. 3', Cymbidium 'Taichung No. 1'. Important research achievements include the completion of European hop, sweet persimmon, early peach, turf, jelly fig, rose, emerging vegetable, water bamboo, cymbidium, nobile-type dendrobium and organic compost etc.