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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 27

(Chapter 9: Primary Production)

Estimated Local Production of Crops, Livestock, Poultry and Fish

Item

Unit

1995

1996

1997

Crops

Vegetables (fresh, frozen or simply preserved)

tonnes

88 000

76.000

64 000

Fresh fruit and nuts

tonnes

4 820

5 230

Flowers

$ thousand

206,000

186,800

4 611 175,924

Other field crops

(1)

tonnes

880

660

799

Livestock and poultry

Cattle

head

190

270

51

Swine (2)

thousand head

208

288

306

Chicken

tonnes

17 400

17 040

14 590

Other poultry

tonnes

3. 300

1 880

1 800

Dairy products and eggs

Milk (fresh)

Eggs (fresh)

tonnes

407

thousands

30 800

439 30 600

215 33 450

Fish and fish preparations

Fish (fresh, chilled or frozen)

Marine fish (3)

tonnes

Freshwater fish

tonnes

154 800 5 250

147 600 5 100

147 280

5.000

Fish (dried, salted or smoked)

Marine fish

tonnes

280

490

220

Crustaceans and molluscs (fresh, frozen, dried,

salted, etc)

tonnes

22 290

21 940

23 020

Fish products and preparations

tonnes

250

100

20

Crustacean and mollusc products and preparations tonnes

70

140

20

Fish meals (animal feeding stuffs)

tonnes

16 330

13 680

18 470

Notes: (1) Other field crops include yam, millet, peanut, sugar cane and sweet potato.

(2) Include local swine not slaughtered in abattoirs.

(3) Include cultured marine fish.

Source: Agriculture and Fisheries Department.

(For enquiries, please call the Census and Statistics Department. Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 4068)

APPENDIX 28

(Chapter 9: Primary Production)

Local Production and Imports" of Ores and Minerals

Item

Quartz

Feldspar

Graphite

Kaolin/feldspar sand

Tonnes

Production

Imports

1995

1996

1997

1995

1996

1997

4 814 105 036 449

2.995 59 694

488 733

298 212 902

875 32 169 117

207 817

Note: (1) For coverage of Hong Kong's external trade statistics, please refer to footnote (1) of Appendix 20.

Sources: Trade Statistics Dissemination Section, Census and Statistics Department,

Civil Engineering Department.

(For enquiries, please call the Census and Statistics Department. Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5042)

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