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I was invited to participate in the International Conference on Modeling Pest Distributions and Monitoring Strategies for Global Crop Protection, which was held in Taichung, Taiwan. This conference was organized by Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. I visited several MOA offices after the conference in Taichung.

Ministry of Agriculture, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI)  was established in 1895 by the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan at the time of Japanese rule. After World War II in 1945, the institute came under the direct supervision of the Taiwan Provincial Administrative Office. In 1949, its affiliation was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of the Taiwan Provincial Government, and in 1999 to the Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan, and in August 1, 2023 to the Ministry of Agriculture.

I visited TARI in Taichung and saw their massive insect collection. They have the largest collection in South Asia, and many institutes visit them to identify species. Dr. Lee is passionate about collecting and preserving native Taiwanese species, especially Coleoptera. He spends hours and hours in the woods to find native beetles.