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APPENDICES
Appendix V
(Chapter 7: Primary Production)
Summary of Primary Production
(to nearest $1,000)
Paddy
Vegetable
Value
Value
Value
Item
1957-8
1958-9
1959-60
$
$
18,239,000 22,271,000
$
18,548,000
25,004,000 32,634,000 36,989,000
Fruit
1,496,000
2,000,000
3,136,000
Sweet Potato
6,425,000 6,400,000
6,344,000
Export Crops
12,736,000
2,041,000
2,811,000
Rice Straw
3,090,000
3,090,000
2,371,000
Poultry
4,000,000
19,489,000
38,400,000
Eggs
200,000
2,583,000
4,353,000
Ducks
2,505,000
6,072,000
7,100,000
Duck Eggs
Pigeons
875,000
566,000 336,000
445,000
826,000
Quail
19,000
Quail Eggs
Geese
160,000
7,000 67,000 795,000
9,000 81,000 910,000
Goose Eggs
Pigs
26,666,000
69,000 40,886,000
146,000 36,303,000
Cattle
1,869,000 2,376,000
1,558,000
Fresh Milk
10,900,000 10,822,000
12,450,000
Miscellaneous Animal
Products
7,401,000
22,846,000
Marine Fisheries
64,930,000
58,369,000
69,446,000
Fresh Frozen Shrimp
4,603,000 7,538,000
1.53
785,000
Remarks 1959-60
First crop $31 per picul Second crop $41 per picul. Records of Marketing Organizations plus value of produce consumed by 50,000 New Territories families, estimated at $3,699,000. Increasing production. Price relatively stable.
Exported under Certificate of Origin.
$4 to $6 per picul.
Estimated on census figures at $8 per bird.
Export figures plus local consumption at $7 each. on census figures.
Estimated on census figures at $7 per pair of squabs. At $1 per bird.
Eggs at 804 per dozen. On census figures at $10 each.
At $200 per picul and 65 catties average weight.
At $4.80 per catty, average weight 260 catties.
1,500,000 2,465,000
Pond Fish
Oyster & Oyster Sauce
1,700,000
1,750,000
1,450,000
2,400,000
Fresh Shrimp
48,000
61,000
82,000
+
Silver Shrimp
87,000
38,000
81,000
Spotted Fish
153,000
107,000
36,000
Fan Mussel
112,000
92,000
160,000
Seaweed
17,000
Forest Products
41,000
423,000
41,000
Market figures + 10% eaten by fishermen + 15% landed in China.
The American authorities prohibited all imports of prawns and shrimps with effect from June 1959. Improved production and higher prices.
Increased production and higher prices for fresh oyster meat.
Exported in the form of slices and noodles.
Exported as paste and sauce.
Poor year. :
Higher prices, very slight
increase in production.
Exported to Bangkok,
Sale of decayed and over- mature camphor trees and fire-wood.
Total
177,608,000 229,483,000 271,139,000