This Act has been enacted to ensure the order of agricultural product marketing, to adjust demand and supply, and to promote transaction justice.
Whatever is not regulated by this Act may be regulated by other applicable legislation.

Responsible government authorities for this Act: Central government level: the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, henceforth Central Competent Authority (CCA); Municipal level: the municipal governments; County/city level: the county or city governments.

Definition of terms in this Act as following::
1. Agricultural products: vegetable, fruit, animal husbandry, fishery, and other agriculture, forest, fishery, and animal husbandry products and　their processed products assigned by the CCA;
2. Agricultural products wholesale market: an organization assembles and performs agricultural products transaction daily or periodically;
3. Farmers: Natural persons directly produce agricultural products defined by this Act;
4. Farmer’s organization: any farmers’ association, fishermen’ association and agricultural production marketing cooperative and cooperative farm organized by law;
5. Supplier: a businessman provides agricultural products for agricultural products wholesale markets;
6. Demander: a businessman purchases agricultural products from agricultural products wholesale markets;
7. Shipper: a businessman purchases agricultural products from agricultural producers or agricultural products wholesale markets and ships and trades them in other markets;
8. Jobber: a businessman purchases agricultural products from agricultural products wholesale market and sells them to retailers or institutional consumer in the same market;
9. Retailer: a businessman sells agricultural products to consumers;
10. Agribusiness corporation: a company perform agricultural production defined by this Act.

Central Competent Authority (CCA) must according to national agriculture production and marketing guides to propose national agriculture production marketing and international trade project; local competent authority must propose annual agriculture production marketing performance.

Central Competent Authority must concern international agriculture production marketing circumstances and report agricultural products market prices; municipal, county or city governments must concern domestic agriculture production marketing circumstances and report agricultural products market prices.

No one shall monopolize the trade of agricultural products, manipulate its prices, or deliberately deceive their trading counterparts on either products’ quality or quantity to gain unjust profits.
No one shall deliberately disseminate rumors or false information that are impactful to the price of traded agricultural products.