This Act aims to ensure the sustainable development of agriculture, to address agricultural globalization and liberalization, to promote reasonable utilization of farmlands, to adjust the structures of agricultural enterprises, to stabilize the sale of agricultural production, etc.; The Act, in order to achieve these aims, empowers competent authorities to: appoint officials to take necessary measures in performing special duties such as protection of agricultural resources, disaster salvage, and preventing blight, pest and diseases of aquatic creatures; to formulate general plans for agricultural land utilization and exploitation; formulate national agricultural production and distribution policies and plans; promulgate standard specifications of agricultural materials of the seed and seedling of plants, breeding animals, fertilizers, pesticides and veterinary drugs; etc.; The Act states that agricultural land which is used as waste treatment field/plant or polluting factory shall be subject to environmental impact assessment in order to maintain the agricultural production environment and avoid groundwater and soil pollution.; The Act further provides for agricultural transportation and distribution, prices and trade; farmers welfare and farming village development; agricultural research and extension; penalties; etc.
Agricultural Development Act.