Taiwan Sugar Corporation

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 314: malformed pattern (missing ']').

Taiwan Sugar Corporation (TSC; Chinese: 台灣糖業股份有限公司; pinyin: Táiwān Tángyè Gōngsī) or Taisugar (Chinese: 台糖; pinyin: Táitáng) is a state-run enterprise of Taiwan, with headquarters located in Tainan City, Taiwan.

History

The corporation was established on May 1, 1946, by the Nationalist government after the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China, through merging all of the sugar companies (Dai-Nihon, Taiwan, Meiji, and Ensuiko Sugar Company) in Japanese era in Taiwan. In the 1950s and 1960s, sugar was one of the major exports of Taiwan; the corporation remains a major land owner nowadays.

Taiwan's sugar trade, which flourished for almost 400 years, is now a sunset industry, and the Taiwan Sugar Corporation has diversified its business into tourism, floriculture, biotechnology, and retailing. It also operates a chain of gas stations, and invests in Taiwan High Speed Rail.

TSC sugar plants

Developments

Taiwan Sugar Corporation has five types of developments which are Open Bid Construction, Joint Construction, Community Development, Sugar Factory Fields Development and Student's Dormitory development. It also owns the Taiwan Sugar Research Institute.

Land ownership

Taisugar owns 550 km2 of land in Taiwan, in which 370 km2 are for agricultural purpose and 120 km2 are for contract production.[2]

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.