Emergency Relief Fund

Technical support and financial assistance

Loan Fund and Emergency Relief

Emergency Relief Fund

Chapter 1103 of the Laws of Hong Kong
Payment Schedule

(Effective from 1.4.2025)

(1)
Type of Payment

(2)
Level of Grant

(3)
Condition of Grant

Primary Producer Grants

Assessment is to be made on the basis of 50% of cost of replacement, up to a maximum of $21,220.

Grants only payable to those who claim or appear to earn livelihood by farming.

(a)	Vegetables and other crops - $2,490 per dau chung (including cost of $324 and $542 for soil conditioner and extra labour respectively) up to a maximum of $14,940 for 6 dau chung. 1 dau chung is equal to 674.5m² or 7 260 ft².

(b)	Livestock - $871 per pig plus $542 cost for extra labour per farm up to a maximum of $9,250 for 10 pigs; $13 per bird plus $542 cost for extra labour per farm up to a maximum of $5,740 for 400 birds; $14,540 per working cattle-calf/heifer to a maximum of $14,540.

(c)	Mushroom - $10 per m² of damaged bedding area plus $542 cost for extra labour per farm up to a maximum of $3,440.

(d)	Silting - $18 per cubic metre or $3,500 per dau chung paid according to actual damage up to a maximum of $10,500.

Generally, only genuine small full-time farmers adversely affected by a natural disaster could be eligible for consideration.

Notes
*	(i) For damaged or evacuated (either moved to rental housing, interim housing or resited) unauthorized domestic structures including unsurveyed squatter structures, only re-equipment grant is payable where there is loss of property; re-accommodation grant, site formation grant or repair grant is not payable.
	(ii) Cases due to piling in the neighbourhood or other occurrences resulting from human acts cannot qualify for assistance. Cases where a forced eviction takes place as a result of a house or a private tenement being rendered uninhabitable by a natural occurrence may qualify for assistance provided that compensation has not been provided by the landlord.
	(iii) In reckoning the time limit for application, the day on which the incident takes place is excluded.
**	The captioned grant is issued on a household basis, and hence each household can only submit one application per incident.

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