Taiwan Sugar Research Institute
The Taiwan Sugar Research Institute is a sugar research center of Taiwan Sugar Corporation in East District, Tainan, Taiwan.
History
The research center was founded in 1901 during the Japanese colonial era.Facilities
The research center spread over 387hectares of land, including 375hectares of experimental farmland. It contains a series of bio-reactors and downstream processing facilities, such as chromatography columns, membrane separators, spray drier and crystallizer.Research
The current research TSRI is undergoing is to find new techniques to raise as much sugarcane as possible per area of usable land and to discover new and resistant sugarcane species from disease and pests.The Taiwan Sugar Research Institute has collaborated with the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism to produce rhum agricole from the sugarcane variety ROC24. In 2025 two of the research batches won gold medals at the Vinalies Internationales competition in France.