Cane sugar was the second-largest export commodity in the Dutch era. Its cultivation was strongly encouraged, and the plains of central and southern Taiwan were covered in cane fields.
蔗糖是荷蘭時期的第二大貿易產品，由於大力鼓吹種植甘蔗，台灣中南部廣袤的平原遍佈蔗田。