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SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1984
+LOCALLY PRODUCED VEGETABLES REPRESENT 60 PER CENT OF TOTAL SALES AND IMPORT VEGETABLES FROM CHINA, USA, THAILAND, TAIWAN AND JAPAN MAKE UP THE BALANCE, HE SAID.
APART FROM MARKETING FACILITIES, A LOAN FUND
WAS ALSO ESTABLISHED TO HELP FARMERS IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS AND TO PURCHASE SUCH LABOUR SAVING MACHINERY AS ROTARY CULTIVATORS, SPRINKLERS AND IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. IN THE LAST FINANCIAL YEAR, 1 251 LOANS TOTALLING $15 MILLION WERE ISSUED.
TO KEEP LOCAL VEGETABLE FARMERS ABREAST OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND TECHNIQUES, STUDY TOURS TO AGRICULTURALLY ADVANCED COUNTRIES ARE ORGANISED EACH YEAR.
IN ADDITION, MR CHAU SAID, SCHOLARSHIPS, INCLUDING GRANTS AND INTEREST-FREE LOANS, ARE PROVIDED FOR YOUNGSTERS WHO WISH TO STUDY AGRICULTURE. TWENTY-NINE PERSONS HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS SCHOLARSHIP FUND SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN 1978.
THE ORGANISATION ALSO WORKS CLOSELY WITH SOME 30 VEGETABLE MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES IN PROMOTING VEGETABLE FARMING IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THESE COOPERATIVES, IN COORDINATION WITH THE FEDERATION OF VEGETABLE MARKETING CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES, SUPPLEMENT THE VMO'S SERVICE BY COLLECTING VEGETABLES FROM FARMERS IN REMOTE OR SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS.
ANOTHER PRIVATE STREET TO BE RESUMED
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THE GOVERNMENT IS PUSHING AHEAD WITH ITS PILOT SCHEME TO RESUME STREETS IN PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL AREAS WHICH ARE IN A DILAPIDATED STATE.
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SUNDAY) THAT YIN ON STREET IN TO KWA WAN WOULD BE RESUMED UNDER THE SCHEME, BRINGING THE NUMBER OF RESUMPTIONS SO FAR TO FIVE.
THE OTHERS ARE COMFORT TERRACE AND YUET YUEN STREET IN NORTH POINT, WHICH WERE RESUMED AT THE END OF MAY: SAM PAN STREET IN WAN CHAI, RESUMED IN MID-JUNE: AND SHIM LUEN STREET, MA TAU KOK, WHICH HAS JUST BEEN RESUMED.
A RESUMPTION NOTICE CONCERNING YIN ON STREET APPEARED IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE AND HAS BEEN POSTED AT THE SITE.
/ANYONE ENTITLED