• 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

Human Resources

Human Resources

As the growing of sugarcane became more and more important to the government, a great deal of manpower was needed, and before the introduction of foreign labor in the early days, the source of labor was entirely from the settlements adjacent to the sugar mills. Sugarcane harvesting used to rely on manual harvesting, due to the lack of traffic at that time, and the use of cattle carts loaded to the chengcheng transfer station, then loaded in five trucks to the sugar factory, until the traffic developed, mainly mechanical harvesting, human harvesting as a subsidiary. 。

Structure of human resources

At the time, Taiwan sugar's recruitment was stateless and, like any company, based on ability and experience. Like the concept of the law of the jungle, ability is high and status is high. If ability is low, employees can only be promoted step by step. Fortunately, when it comes to hiring, salary, promotion opportunities, etc... Will not be because of the distinction between men and women and there are treatment differences, for women to marry and give birth will also have the same treatment. In my opinion, the good part is that in the past, there was a preference for sons over daughters. However, modern girls have become independent and have their own dreams. Although there are still some prejudices and wrong moral concepts in the past, they are gradually improving.。