Overcoming numerous difficulties, TSC began to plan for privatization in 1995. Step by step it encouraged contract sugarcane farmers to "go out of production," and this year it initiated the breakup of the corporation into eight divisions.
民國八十四年起，台糖公司在排除萬難後，開始著手民營化規劃，除了逐步勸導契作蔗農「離農」之外，更於九十二年開始分割台糖，逐步成立八個事業部。