The Dutch imported oxen from Southeast Asia, and began farming. However, cultivation techniques were rudimentary, and more advanced rice growing techniques only arrived with the large-scale immigration of people from southern China after the expulsion of the Dutch.
荷蘭人從南洋引進黃牛，開始初步的耕種技術，但是較純熟的種稻技術，則是鄭芝龍引進閩南移民才帶進台灣的。