Deliberate manipulation is a factor which magnifies price volatility, but it is the inherently unhealthy state of agriculture in the ROC--mainly the fact that production is mostly small scale and unplanned--which makes it easy for production and sales to get out of balance.
人為操控是煽風點火、助漲助跌的因素之一，然而國內農產品先天體質不良，主要是小型生產沒有計畫，容易產銷失調。