Can Hong Kong cultivate its agriculture, fisheries sectors?
Hong Kong imports most of its fish, meat and vegetables, much of it from the mainland.
Lo Hoi-ying
South China Morning Post
APr 27, 2024
Excerpt:
Although Hong Kong has more than 4,000 hectares of designated agricultural land, more than four-fifths lies abandoned. Merely 8.5 per cent (345 hectares) is used for vegetable farming, employing only 4,300 people – 0.1 per cent of the city’s workforce.
Hong Kong produces under 2 per cent of the 780,000 tonnes of vegetables consumed each year, relying on daily imports brought from the mainland by 200 trucks.
The fisheries industry, valued at HK$2.3 billion, contributes 15 per cent to the local seafood consumption of 237,000 tonnes annually.
The city produces only 0.02 per cent of the eggs consumed, and 13.8 per cent of fresh pork from 43 pig farms.
All live chickens consumed in the city are produced by 29 farms in the New Territories, while all ducks and geese are imported from the mainland.
