• 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

The oppressed sugar-cane farmers

During the period of Japanese rule, the Japanese ruled Taiwan. In order to carry out the policy of "industrial Japan, agricultural Taiwan" and create a "sugar empire", they spared no effort to produce sugar in Taiwan. The Japanese government established various systems to manipulate the sugar growers and implemented many policies such as the "harvesting area system" and the "sugar production incentive law" to extract the hard work of the sugar growers. In addition, the sugarcane field was divided into regions and harvested by the sugar factory. The farmers could not sell the sugarcane beyond the regions. It was also stipulated that the sugarcane could not be harvested privately.

Sugar cane weight is weighed by sugar mill, sugar growers can not participate; Moreover, the price of sugar is determined by the sale of sugar, and all rights are determined by the society. Wages can be embellished, weighing pounds often steal jin two, as a result of the impact on the lives of farmers, have to complain.

The oppressed sugar-cane farmers

Under this tough rules, the sugar growers were reluctant because they had been oppressed for a long time. In addition, farmers had problems making a living, so the Er-Lin Farmer Event burst next. After the event , leader Liou and Lee were caught by the Japanese police, which was such a far-reaching event that the government set up a memorial hall for the Er-Lin farmers to commemorate their heroic anti-japanese action. However, the erlin nong incident was the first peasant resistance to the government in the history of Taiwan.

Fun on the mini- trains!

During Japan's reign, the Japanese governor's office set up mini-trains to transport sugar canes to facilitate the rapid production of sugar cane for sale around the world. However, the body of the mini-trains are not very wide, the transportation speed was not fast, either. A large amount of sugar canes needs to be transported, so in the process of transportation, some were often dropped down from the trains halfway. When seeing the sugar canes falling , the children would chase the train .