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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1988

HE SAID THE STEERING GROUP WAS RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE SELECTION

ON

THE

OF PRIVATE FARMS FOR CARRYING OUT THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS BASED

IT WOULD ALSO MONITOR CRITERIA. AGREED SELECTION A SET OF

PROGRESS OF THESE PROJECTS, HE ADDED.

"THE GROUP

THE RESULTS ON COMMENT WILL THEN

AND REPORT TO THE CONSULTATIVE

ITS TO COMMITTEE

REFLECT

VIEWS

OF THE COMMITTEE

TO

THE

PROJECTS DEMONSTRATION ACCORDINGLY TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT, HE SAID.

COMPRISES OF THE 16-MEMBER STEERING GROUP, CHAIRED BY MR KWAN,

AND TWO MEMBERS OF THE LEGCO AD HOC GROUP, PROFESSOR POON CHUNG-KWONG

AND WELFARE BRANCH, MR ANDREW WONG; REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE HEALTH

AND FISHERIES AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT AND CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION: AND BREEDERS' REPRESENTATIVES, MR CHAN KWOK-WAI, MR CHAN YU-YUK, SO WING-HOI, CHOI-YUK, HR LEUNG CHI-HA, MÀ LI HOK-YUK, CHUN-KOW, MR WONG SUI-FAN AND MR YAU MING-TAK.

MR

MS FUNG WONG MR

MEMBERS

FROM CONFERENCE

THE

OF

OUT THAT ALL UNOFFICIAL MR KWAN POINTED LIVESTOCK REARING SECTOR WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT LIVESTOCK BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.

THE STEERING GROUP WILL HOLD

ITS

FIRST

MEETING

AS

SOON

AS

POSSIBLE.

LEGCO GROUP SEES EFFLUENT-FREE PIG RAISING TECHNIQUE

A

WASTE DISPOSAL FIRST-HAND LOOK OUT BY THE AGRICULTURE AND EFFLUENT-FREE PIG RAISING

FORMED TO STUDY THE THE LEGCO AD-HOC GROUP (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987 THIS (TUESDAY) MORNING TOOK AT THE SECOND STAGE EXPERIMENT CARRIED FISHERIES DEPARTMENT ON THE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE.

THE SECOND STAGE EXPERIMENT, WHICH BEGAN IN NOVEMBER, BEEN COMPLETED WITH VERY GOOD RESULTS.

HAS JUST

BY PIG FARMERS SOLVE THE

IT HAS DEMONSTRATED A GREAT POTENTIAL FOR USE AS A PRACTICAL AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE HUSBANDRY METHOD TO PIG WASTE PROBLEM.

LED BY ITS CONVENOR, MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG, THE GROUP VISITED

PRIVATE PIO DEPARTMENT'S TA TWU LING PIG BREEDING CENTRE AND A WHERE THE TESTS WERE CONDUCTED.

THE

FARM

/ACCOMPANYING THE