The present Law governs the relations connected with production, conversion and turnover environmentally friendly agricultural and the provisions ensuring health and safety of the population, the earth, water, plants and animals of the Azerbaijan Republic.

The present Law establishes legal and organizational basis of activities of family peasant economy in the Azerbaijan Republic.

The present Law establishes the priority directions of promotion and protection of food of babies and children of early age maternal milk, organization-legal bases of control of production, import, advertising and sale of artificial food, governs the relations arising in this area.

The present Law establishes the legal basis of quality management, production and organization of the market of foodstuff, ensuring food security of the population in the Azerbaijan Republic.

The present Law establishes legal and economic basis of stimulation of proprietary insurance of producers of agricultural products, irrespective of pattern of ownership, in the Azerbaijan Republic, governs the relations between participants of insurance.