• 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

Groundwater resource site

Groundwater resource

A large amount of water is needed to clean, boil and cool sugar production in Pingtung sugar factory. The stream flows southward along the east side of Pingtung city in front of the Jade-Emperor Temple, where the early Pingtung sugar factory once set up gates to control irrigation water. The period of the Wan-Nian creek barrage depends on the sugar production of Taiwan sugar company, from October to April of the next year, which is the dry season in Pingtung.

Importance

Sugarcanes , from planting to maturity, need a lot of water. People who often taste sugarcanes know that sugarcane stem contains a lot of juicer, and the juice affects the sugar cane and its quality. When planting sugarcane, a large amount of water is needed. Therefore, for the convenience of irrigation, farmers must also choose the land with a large amount of water when they choose the sugarcane planting land. When they see the soil drying up, they must immediately irrigate it and keep it moist to avoid the situation that the growth will stop due to lack of water.