Back then the principal industries in Fupao Village-like much of the mid-to-southern coasts of western Taiwan-were aquaculture and traditional agriculture. After many years of pumping groundwater to feed the fish ponds, subsidence and excess alkalinity grew increasingly severe. From the 1970s, much of the farmland shifted from sugarcane production to pastureland, and agriculture generally shifted toward dairy farming.
當時福寶村和其他中南部海岸一樣，以養殖業和傳統農耕為主要產業，因為長年超抽地下水，逐漸造成地層下陷、土壤鹹化，民國六十年代以後，蔗田改種牧草，農業便轉型為酪農業。