Agricultural Development Act Article 3
To implement the Act, the terms used are defined as follows:1.Agriculture: Refers to the use of natural resources and agricultural materials and technology to engage in production, processing, marketing, and leisure practices of farming, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry.2.Agricultural products: Articles that are produced from agricultural operations.3.Farmers: Refers to natural persons who directly engage in agricultural operations.4.Family farm: A farm that is engaging in agricultural operations based on a common living household unit.5.Leisure agriculture: A farm operation that applies landscapes of the countryside, ecosystem, and environmental resources, integrates production and the other agricultural operations of farming, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, and cultures of rural villages and lives of peasant families to provide agricultural activities to citizens for their leisure with an aim to promote the experiences of agriculture and rural villages.6.Leisure farm: A farm that is operated for leisure agriculture.7.Farmers’ organization: Refers to a farmers association, fishermen association, agricultural cooperative, or irrigation association that is organized according to the Farmers Association Act, the Fishermen Association Act, the Agricultural Cooperative Act, and the General Provisions of the Organization of Irrigation Associations.8.Agricultural corporation: A company that engages in agricultural production or agricultural experimentation and research activities.9.Agricultural research and experiment institute: An institute, school or agricultural juristic person that engages in agricultural research and experiment.10.Agricultural land: A land that is designated as non-urban land or as land that is in the scope of urban agricultural zones or reserved zones, which is used for the following purposes by relevant laws:(1)Used for agricultural operations of farming, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, and conservation.(2)Used for farmhouses, barns, storage and warehousing facilities, sun drying yards, packing houses, farm roads, irrigation, drainage systems, and other farming uses that are considered an integral part of agricultural operations.(3)Used for warehouses, freezing/chilling facilities, agricultural machinery centers, sites of silk production or breeding silkworms, packing houses, and inspection stations that are directly provided for agricultural purposes, and the properties of land used are owned by farmers’ organizations or cooperative farms.11.Arable land: An agricultural or a grazing land that is attributed to specialized agricultural operation zone, general agricultural zones, slope land conservation zones, and forestry zones as delimited in terms of the Regional Planning Act.12.Agricultural use: Refers to the use of agricultural lands by relevant laws is provided for agricultural operations of farming, forestry, fishery, livestock husbandry, and conservation and is established for agricultural operation facilities or farmhouses. Whereas the land is not actually used for farming, forestry, fishery, and livestock husbandry operations due to fallow, recuperation, and suspension or uncontrollable forces of the lands by relevant laws, it is also within the scope of the definition.13.Specialized agricultural production zone: A zone that is established by relevant laws regulating the types of agricultural production/products, where production, processing, storage, and marketing systems are set up.14.Lease of agricultural land: An act of leasing part or the whole of the landowners’ agricultural lands to other parties for agricultural operation purposes.15.Contract farming: An act of commissioning other parties to engage in only part or the whole of the farming production operations of self-operating family farms.16.Agricultural Production and Marketing Group: An agricultural group that is voluntarily formed and managed by farmers whose lands are adjacent or close to each other or those who engage in the same type of agricultural industries.17.Marketing of agricultural products: Refers to operations of agricultural products that include collection, classification, grading, packaging, storage, freezing/chilling, processing, inspection, transportation, and trading.18.Agricultural extension: An act of applying the means of agricultural communications, human resource development, and administration services, taking advantage of agricultural resources to provide farmers with lifelong education opportunities and enable them to utilize local resources for developing local industries.
中文原文 農業發展條例第3條
本條例用辭定義如下：
一、農業：指利用自然資源、農用資材及科技，從事農作、森林、水產、畜牧等產製銷及休閒之事業。
二、農產品：指農業所生產之物。
三、農民：指直接從事農業生產之自然人。
四、家庭農場：指以共同生活戶為單位，從事農業經營之農場。
五、休閒農業：指利用田園景觀、自然生態及環境資源，結合農林漁牧生產、農業經營活動、農村文化及農家生活，提供國民休閒，增進國民對農業及農村之體驗為目的之農業經營。
六、休閒農場：指經營休閒農業之場地。
七、農民團體：指農民依農會法、漁會法、農業合作社法、農田水利會組織通則所組織之農會、漁會、農業合作社及農田水利會。
八、農業企業機構：指從事農業生產或農業試驗研究之公司。
九、農業試驗研究機構：指從事農業試驗研究之機關、學校及農業財團法人。
十、農業用地：指非都市土地或都市土地農業區、保護區範圍內，依法供下列使用之土地：
（一）供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧及保育使用者。
（二）供與農業經營不可分離之農舍、畜禽舍、倉儲設備、曬場、集貨場、農路、灌溉、排水及其他農用之土地。
（三）農民團體與合作農場所有直接供農業使用之倉庫、冷凍（藏）庫、農機中心、蠶種製造（繁殖）場、集貨場、檢驗場等用地。
十一、耕地：指依區域計畫法劃定為特定農業區、一般農業區、山坡地保育區及森林區之農牧用地。
十二、農業使用：指農業用地依法實際供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧、保育及設置相關之農業設施或農舍等使用者。
但依規定辦理休耕、休養、停養或有不可抗力等事由，而未實際供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧等使用者，視為作農業使用。
十三、農產專業區：指按農產別規定經營種類所設立，並建立產、製、儲、銷體系之地區。
十四、農業用地租賃：指土地所有權人將其自有農業用地之部分或全部出租與他人經營農業使用者。
十五、委託代耕：指自行經營之家庭農場，僅將其農場生產過程之部分或全部作業，委託他人代為實施者。
十六、農業產銷班：指土地相毗連或經營相同產業之農民，自願結合共同從事農業經營之組織。
十七、農產運銷：指農產品之集貨、選別、分級、包裝、儲存、冷凍（藏）、加工處理、檢驗、運輸及交易等各項作業。
十八、農業推廣：指利用農業資源，應用傳播、人力資源發展或行政服務等方式，提供農民終身教育機會，協助利用當地資源，發展地方產業之業務。
一、農業：指利用自然資源、農用資材及科技，從事農作、森林、水產、畜牧等產製銷及休閒之事業。
二、農產品：指農業所生產之物。
三、農民：指直接從事農業生產之自然人。
四、家庭農場：指以共同生活戶為單位，從事農業經營之農場。
五、休閒農業：指利用田園景觀、自然生態及環境資源，結合農林漁牧生產、農業經營活動、農村文化及農家生活，提供國民休閒，增進國民對農業及農村之體驗為目的之農業經營。
六、休閒農場：指經營休閒農業之場地。
七、農民團體：指農民依農會法、漁會法、農業合作社法、農田水利會組織通則所組織之農會、漁會、農業合作社及農田水利會。
八、農業企業機構：指從事農業生產或農業試驗研究之公司。
九、農業試驗研究機構：指從事農業試驗研究之機關、學校及農業財團法人。
十、農業用地：指非都市土地或都市土地農業區、保護區範圍內，依法供下列使用之土地：
（一）供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧及保育使用者。
（二）供與農業經營不可分離之農舍、畜禽舍、倉儲設備、曬場、集貨場、農路、灌溉、排水及其他農用之土地。
（三）農民團體與合作農場所有直接供農業使用之倉庫、冷凍（藏）庫、農機中心、蠶種製造（繁殖）場、集貨場、檢驗場等用地。
十一、耕地：指依區域計畫法劃定為特定農業區、一般農業區、山坡地保育區及森林區之農牧用地。
十二、農業使用：指農業用地依法實際供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧、保育及設置相關之農業設施或農舍等使用者。
但依規定辦理休耕、休養、停養或有不可抗力等事由，而未實際供農作、森林、養殖、畜牧等使用者，視為作農業使用。
十三、農產專業區：指按農產別規定經營種類所設立，並建立產、製、儲、銷體系之地區。
十四、農業用地租賃：指土地所有權人將其自有農業用地之部分或全部出租與他人經營農業使用者。
十五、委託代耕：指自行經營之家庭農場，僅將其農場生產過程之部分或全部作業，委託他人代為實施者。
十六、農業產銷班：指土地相毗連或經營相同產業之農民，自願結合共同從事農業經營之組織。
十七、農產運銷：指農產品之集貨、選別、分級、包裝、儲存、冷凍（藏）、加工處理、檢驗、運輸及交易等各項作業。
十八、農業推廣：指利用農業資源，應用傳播、人力資源發展或行政服務等方式，提供農民終身教育機會，協助利用當地資源，發展地方產業之業務。