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Out of a total land area of 398 square miles, Hong Kong possesses only some 50 square miles of good to indifferent arable flat land and about 10 square miles of marginal hilly land. The New Territories farmers employ agricultural methods that have remained basically unchanged for centuries. In rice-growing, for example, the whole family wades almost knee-deep in water to hand-plant paddy (above) which will later be threshed by hand (below). But the Research Stations of the Agricul- ture, Fisheries and Forestry Department are helping the farmer to grow improved crops and breed better animals by modern scientific methods. Below, right, a field officer of the Department shows a farmer how to select the best seed paddy.
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