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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1990

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ACTING GOVERNOR VISITS EXPERIMENTAL FARMS

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TODAY

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HAD (THURSDAY) NEW FARMING TECHNIQUES NOW BEING

THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD,

OF THE FIRST-HAND LOOK AT SOME INTRODUCED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

AND FISHERIES, DR KWU LING PIG BREEDING WHICH USES A SPECIAL PRODUCTS то BACTERIAL

ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE LAWRENCE LEE, SIR DAVID FIRST VISITED THE TA CENTRE. HE INSPECTED THE PIG-ON-LITTER METHOD BEDDING

SAWDUST AND MATERIAL COMPRISING DECOMPOSE PIG MANURE IN THE PIG SHEI

THE

DEPARTMENT'S

SENIOR

VETERINARY

SYSTEM HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE

SIR DAVID WAS BRIEFED BY OFFICER, DR NORMAN CHENG, AND WAS TOLD THAT THE NEW

YEARS, THREE

WITH TESTED FOR

PIGS 1,400 EXPERIMENTS IN THE GOVERNMENT AND FIVE PRIVATE FARMS.

THE DEPARTMENT

IS

ABOUT

PRACTISING THE SYSTEM ALL YEAR ROUND COVERING DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE PRODUCTION CYCLE.

WHICH HAS ADOPTED THE SIR DAVID ALSO VISITED A PRIVATE FARM

THE OTHER PIG-ON-LITTER METHOD FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS. HE THEN SAW

SYSTEMS OPERATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

WASTE TREATMENT DEPARTMENT.

OF THE THE ACTING GOVERNOR WAS TOLD THAT AN OUTSTANDING MERIT

AND OFFENSIVE SMELL PIG-ON-LITTER SYSTEM IS THE ABSENCE OF EFFLUENT GENERATED FROM THE PIGTIES.

CROP

SOIL CONDITIONER MOREOVER, THE SPENT SAWDUST LITTER IS A GOOD AND ORGANIC FERTILISER WHICH CAN BE RECYCLED FOR LANDSCAPING AND GROWING.

BY SIR DAVID LATER PROCEEDED TO TAI LUNG FARM WHERE HE WAS MET

HE TOURED THE THE DEPARTMENT'S AGRICULTURAL OFFICER, MR HO KOON-YU.

LITTER FARM AND WAS IMPRESSED BY THE GOOD EFFECTS OF APPLYING SAWDUST FOR CROP CULTIVATION.

GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN PADS PROJECTS

A CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADVANCE WORKS SITE FOR

LAP THE AIRPORT AT CHEK

KOK WILL GO ON TENDER IN

THE OCTOBER, SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

SPEAKING AT A SEMINAR IN SINGAPORE, MRS CHAN SAID THE MAJOR AND SITE FORMATION WORKS INCLUDING SEAWALL CONSTRUCTION, RECLAMATION THE EXCAVATION OF CHEK LAP KOK ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO BE PUT IN EARLY 1992,

ON

TENDER

/BRIEFING HER