因氣候變遷，地球溫室效應加劇造成可耕地面積大幅減少及農作物栽種不易導致糧食短缺問題發生。如何解決糧食短缺問題已成為世界各國的重要議題。台灣植物工廠產業發展協會為促進國內植物工廠產業發展及企業交流，建立植物工廠技術及應用之上下游交流平台，並以提升植物工廠產業效能、促進植物工廠產業發展為宗旨。

Due to the climate change, the increase of the global warming effect has resulted in a significant reduction in the area of arable land, and it has not been easy for crop planting to cause food shortages. How to solve the food
shortage problem has become an important issue for countries in the world. The Association is enacted as a non-profit social organization according to law, aiming to establish an exchanged platform from upstream to downstream of plant factory technologies and applications, enhanced the industrial efficiency of plant factories, and promoted the development of the plant factory industry in Taiwan.