This water regulation has been considered a means by which Japanese sugar capitalists exploited Taiwanese farmers, and was criticized by scholars at that time, e.g., Yanaihara (1929).

• 这强制的给水制度受到当时学者如矢内原忠雄(1929)的诟病，认为是日本糖业资本家宰制台湾农民的一种手段。