As a state-owned agricultural enterprise, TSC not only was charged with making a profit but also with "fostering industry through agriculture." During the difficult decade of the 1950s the slender sugarcane stalk propped up "half the sky" of the national economy.
身為以政府政令是從的國營企業，以農立業的台糖公司，除了創造經濟收益外，也曾擔負「以農業扶植工業」的重任，在國運艱困的民國四十年代，以細瘦蔗桿撐起了台灣經濟半邊天。