Question No. 15
WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH & WELFARE
TO A QUESTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON
Question:
HON. TAI CHIN-WAH IN THE
WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH 1986
Can the Government inform this Council of the following:-
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
the number of farms and an estimate of the number of pigs and chickens reared thereon in Hong Kong in the past ten years from 1976 to 1985?
the specific areas and the number of livestock-keepers who it is believed could be affected by the proposed new measures for the control of pollution caused by animal waste?
the extent to which services for the collection of animal waste in the New Territories have improved during the 1970s and 1980s?
(i)
Details of the livestock population are not
gathered on an annual basis and so year on
year statistics are not available.
The
last comprehensive survey of livestock farms
was carried out in 1979 and the results,
for pigs and chickens, were as follows:-
/Chickens.