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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1992

WORKSHOP ON SOILLESS CULTURE OF VEGETABLES

ABOUT 100 FARMERS, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND TEACHING STAFF ARE TAKING PART IN A WORKSHOP ON SOILLESS CULTURE OF VEGETABLES AND PROTECTED CROPPING FROM TODAY (MONDAY) TO NEXT TUESDAY (NOVEMBER 17).

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES THE WORKSHOP WAS AIMED AT ENHANCING THE KNOW-HOW OF GROWING OF PROTECTED CROPS AND HYDROPONIC VEGETABLES.

DEPARTMENT

SAID

FARMERS ON THE

APART FROM THE FARMERS, SOME 30 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND TEACHING STAFF MAY ALSO PRACTISE MODERN FARMING TECHNIQUES, THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

AND

THE EIGHT-DAY WORKSHOP, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT THE KADOORIE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE (KARC) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, COMPRISES SEVEN MORNING LECTURES AND SEVEN AFTERNOON PRACTICAL SESSIONS.

THE LECTURES WILL BE GIVEN BY DR KAO TE-CHEN, AN THE AGRICULTURE IMPROVMENT STATION OF TAI CHUNG DISTRICT, KARC AT LAM KAM ROAD IN SHEK KONG.

EXPERT FROM TAIWAN, AT

AMONG THE TOPICS TO BE COVERED WILL BE: PROTECTED CULTURE IN SUB-TROPICAL REGIONS, COMMERCIALISED HYDROPONIC THE WORLD, DYNAMIC ROOT FLOATING SYSTEMS, NUTRIENT PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS MICRO-CLIMATE ON GROWTH AND PEST/DISEASE OCCURRENCE.

THE LECTURES WILL BE FOLLOWED BY GROUP DISCUSSIONS.

VEGETABLE SYSTEMS IN SOLUTION VEGETABLE

DEPARTMENT'S

THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS, TO BE HELD AT THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN TAI LUNG, LIN TONG ΜΕΙ, WILL INCLUDE HYDRO-CULTURE VIDEO SHOWS AND OTHER PRACTICAL VEGETABLE CULTURES AND ANALYSIS, SEEDING AND SEEDLINGS TRANSPLANTATION, PREPARATION OF NUTRIENT SOLUTION AS WELL AS GREENHOUSE INSTALLATION.

A VISIT TO A MAJOR HYDRO-CULTURE FARM IN THE TERRITORY WILL ALSO BE ORGANISED IN THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 14, A SATURDAY, ΤΟ ENABLE PARTICIPANTS TO HAVE A BROADER VIEW ON THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THESE SET-UPS UNDER THE LOCAL CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND OTHER

LIMITATIONS.

THE WORKSHOP WAS LAUNCHED THIS (MONDAY) MORNING AT A BY THE DEPARTMENT'S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (AGRICULTURE), MISS AND THE KARC'S DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR DANIEL CHAN KWONG-ON.

CEREMONY VERA 80

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