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.