• Once a self-sufficient community
  • Taiwan's economic export value accounts for the largest proportion
  • Departing from an abandoned railway
  • With the introduction of local people
  • Let's understand the history of Taiwan Sugar
Sugar mill locomotive

Retired train that used to transport sugar cane

Old banyan tree

Old banyan tree accompanied Pingtung sugar factory

Shinpei Torii

Japanese engineer built a water collection corridor

Taitang County People's Park

The transformed Park is full of amazing designs

Foreword

"Sugar" is not only a kind of commodity, but also all the sweet memories of childhood. Sugar once to create a glorious history for Taiwan, starting from the Dutch occupation, sugar has become Taiwan's exports, so the period of ching dynasty the sugar mill arisen by the built in sugarcane field, but the inside is a person or animal drawn for sugar factories, so the efficiency is not high, manufacturing product slow, so many. After signing the treaty of maguan, Taiwan still based on traditional sugar sugar mill production bulk at first, the Meiji 33 years, the Japanese began to introduce many mechanical sugar, completely changed the way of Taiwan's sugar production, old-style sugar mill was replaced by the new sugar mill, by speed and yield new sugar mill, by then called sugar sugar is more owned by the government or big business, so the market is monopolized by the Japanese government or big business.

After the second world war, due to the defeat of Japan, the government of the republic of China receives Taiwan, when all the sugar has taken over by the Taiwan sugar company, and fix the destroyed in the war production equipment, the postwar Taiwan still is given priority to with agriculture, on the export of sugar into the sums of foreign exchange, in the 1960 s Taiwan sugar by the most brilliant, thriving, gradually due to the international sugar prices depressed for a long time and high cost of production began to decline, beginning in 1990 many sugar mill have been demolished or merged, only a handful of transformation into a sightseeing sugar mill or to continue operation. Today still preserved the sugar mill to transition, to borrow from sightseeing to sugar mill to flourish, so there are a lot of sugar mill has to handle the activities, such as: spring street, lights, etc., some of the sugar mill to make some 5 minutes of car repair, let it be able to Mercedes on the track, but it now the task is not a load of sugarcane, but with tourists in the sugar mill. Because of the abandoned railway, we are curious about Pingtung sugar factory, which once had a glorious title in east Asia and was the main force of Taiwan's economic export trade in the early days of recovery. The value of Taiwan sugar gradually declined, now faded into a parent-child tourism park. So we wanted to use the web, through the local oral and information collection, to make some records of this history.