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What are "full-time and part-time farm households"? What is the demographic structure of full-time farm households in Taiwan?

1. Full-time farming households refer to households whose members engage exclusively in farming and livestock raising (including farming, livestock production, processing, and recreation); or whose members engage in work apart from farming and livestock raising, but each person engages in such work for less than 30 days per year and household income from such work is less than NT$20,000. Part-time farming households refer to households whose members personally engage work apart from agriculture and animal husbandry, and each person engages in such work for at least 30 days per year, or household income from such work exceeds NT$20,000.

2.  In the most recent 2015 Agricultural, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Census, there were 691,000 farming households in Taiwan, of which 15.7% constituted full-time farm households.