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“... tax levied
on sugar and a shortage in last year's crop account, in a great measure,
for the increase in the cost of Formosan sugars. For the first time
in recent years no sugars were shipped by British merchants to
North China, and with the ever-increasing cost of sugars it seems
probable that the North China market will have to be supplied from
other localities. The Formosan sugar factory appears to absorb a
large proportion of the cane cultivated between Tainan and Takow.
Additional small mills are being erected throughout the sugar
districts under Government protection, and it seems probable that
the growth of sugar cane will show a large increase in the near
future.
Other exports mentioned in Table II show, with the exception of Other
turmeric, pineapple fibre, bamboo shoots and the Government exPorts-
monopoly of salt, values in excess of those of 1902, rice being fore-
most with a total increase of 236,107?.
The nee crop in Formosa for 1903 was an average crop and was Rice,
exported...”
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