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     This chapter is concerned with information on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and livestock husbandry. The scope of agricultural production reporting system cover all agricultural products produced in Taiwan Area except sheep, horses and deer. Production does not include intermediate inputs, consumption or waste. The productions of principal products are all reported. For by-products only productions of forestry are reported.  From the reported data, the Council of Agriculture picks out a number of representative products for calculation of the agricultural production index which adopts the Laspeyres fixed base weighted formula, with the weights being the prices of farm products prevailing in the base year.  In shifting the base year, the Fisher Ideal formula are used to splice the new and old indices. To avoid double counting the agricultural output, seeds are deducted from the output of a crop in calculation of the output index for the crop. In calculation of the general agricultural production index, crop products used as animal feed are further deducted in order to avoid double counting of the animal feeds in the crop sector. Animal feeds are included in the livestock and fisheries production.
     Fisheries -- This line of business can be divided into six categories, i.e., deep-sea fishery, offshore fishery, coastal fishery, marine culture, inland water fishing and inland water culture. The deep-sea fishery refers to fishing on waters beyond the economic zones of our country by means of powered vessels. The offshore fishery refers to fishing on the waters within the economic zones of our country, i.e., 12 knotical miles to 200 knotical miles from the coast by means of powered vessels. The coastal fishery refers to fishing on the territorial waters, i.e., 12 knotical miles from the coast, by fishing raft or other means. The marine culture refers to raising aquatic animals or plants in the waters along the coast. The inland water fishing refers to fishing or harvesting of aquatic animals or plants in inland waters. The inland water culture refers to raising aquatic animals or plants in inland waters.