Today, following Taiwan's entry into the WTO and the threat of imported sugar products, the sugar industry has declined even further. The company-operated farms and the "contract production" sugarcane fields, which in the past were connected by the sugarcane railroads, may very well continue to go out of production.
而今，隨著我國加入世界貿易組織，在進口糖品威脅下，糖業進一步式微，昔日糖業鐵路連接的自營農場和「契作」蔗田，只怕要進一步荒蕪了。