With the support of the Governor's Office, Japanese-funded enterprises have set up 11 large agricultural warehouses throughout Taiwan, which have functions such as acceptance, storage and transportation, storage and transportation, storage and testing. The picture shows the Taichung Agricultural Warehouse established in December 1922, which is the earliest agricultural warehouse established on the island, which can store 20,000 bags of Penglai rice.
Farmers transport the harvested Penglai rice in an ox cart to the agricultural warehouse of Nippon Corporation for storage.
Penglai rice has a very good taste and is very popular with the Japanese, so the Penglai rice produced in Taiwan is continuously shipped to Japan. The picture shows the Penglai rice parcels waiting to be shipped to Japan in the warehouse of Keelung Port.
A large number of Taiwanese rice bags are being loaded on board at Keelung Port for shipment to Japan.
After 1937, in order to meet the needs of Japan's invasion of China, The export volume of Taiwan's agricultural products to Japan soared. The Governor's Office sub-district has extensive agricultural technician training institutes for young farmers between the ages of 18 and 35. The picture shows the trainees of the training institute working in the fields and learning various agricultural techniques.
The picture shows the agricultural technicians (those wearing large hats and white clothes in the back row) who have completed their studies at the Agricultural Technician Training Institute, instructing farmers to conduct field management in the rice fields where Penglai rice is planted.
After 1940, Taiwan launched the "agricultural service to the country" movement. The Governor's Office has stepped up its efforts to promote the technique of cultivating Penglai rice, sought to increase rice production by a large margin, and forced Young People from Taiwan to participate in various agricultural technology training institutes. The picture shows the instructors of the agricultural affairs small group in Taichung Prefecture, and the trainees, led by Japanese instructors, are carrying farm tools on their shoulders and preparing to work in the fields.
The picture shows the trainees of the Taichung Prefecture Agricultural Small Group Instructor Training Institute planting seedlings in a rice field under the supervision of a Japanese instructor (two people standing on a field mound). The average age of the institute's students is 24 years.
The above pictures and texts are selected from the 3rd volume of the "Atlas of the Japanese Invasion of China", "Fifty Years of Occupation of Taiwan", edited by Hong Xiaoxia and Yin Zhantang, and published by Shandong Pictorial Publishing House in May 2015. The Atlas of The Japanese Invasion of China consists of 25 volumes, edited by Zhang Xianwen, a senior honorary professor at Nanjing University. The Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, the Research Center for the History of the Republic of China of Nanjing University, and the Shandong Pictorial Publishing House Co., Ltd. cooperated in the project, and was selected as the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" National Key Book Publishing Planning Project, and the National Press and Publishing Reform and Development Project Database 2014 Annual Warehouse Project.