Appendices

Appendix 1

SUMMARY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - ESTIMATED QUANTITIES AND VALUE 2002-04 Ħħ

Item
Unit

2002

2003

2004

Quantity

$'000

Quantity

$'000

Quantity

$'000

Corp

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers*

243,447

195,133

220,687

Fruits

Tonne

2,133

15,389

940

7,539

649

4,957

Vegetables

Tonne

32,100

72,250

27,700

68,950

26,000

70,500

Field Crops

Tonne

520

631

380

471

220

284

Sub-total :

331,717

272,093

296,428

Livestock

Pig#

Number

444,3 00

580,844

390,900

527,331

380,850

538,667

Cattle

Number

138

915

79

536

118

799

Fresh Milk

Tonne

129

1,807

96

1,342

117

1,642

Sub-total :

583,566

529,209

541,108

       

Poultry

Chickens

Number

8,604,000

238,522

10,154,000

243,164

7,821,054

276,579

Hatching Hen Eggs

Thousand

91

182

764

1,528

3,015

6,029

Table Hen Eggs

Thousand

23

14

44

30

532

372

Quail

Number

62,000

239

0

0

0

0

Hatching Quail Eggs

Thousand

127

22

0

0

0

0

Table Quail Eggs

Thousand

7

1

0

0

0

0

Pigeons

Number

  263,690

8,391

  173,510

6,079

103,552

3,800

Sub-total :

247,371

250,801

286,780

Grand Total

1,162,654

1,052,103

1,124,316


Ħħ

Estimated value of production was calculated using farm-gate prices (i.e. the prices received by farmers)

*

Including potted plants and blossom trees

#

Including local pigs not slaughtered in abattoirs, the number estimated by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department was 82 in 2002, 16 in 2003 and 8 in 2004