Opening event of Urban Farm in Ma On Shan Sai Sha Road Garden held today (with pictures)
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The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department today (October 11) held an opening event of the very first metropolitan farm pilot job in Ma On Shan Sai Sha Road Garden (MOSSSRG).
The city farm in the MOSSSRG embraces modernised indoor growing system to perform multi-layer farming, producing regional veggies and fruits such as salad greens, tomatoes and strawberries based upon market need. The general public will have the ability to acquire farming items at the farm and participate in modernised farming experiential activities supplied by the farm.
Officiating at the opening event, the Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Food), Ms Irene Young, stated that the advancement of city farming is among the techniques set out in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Blueprint for the Sustainable Development of Agriculture and Fisheries. Urban farms supply fresh, low carbon and quality farming items with “harvest-to-sale”and will arrange farming associated instructional activities, allowing the coexistence of farming and metropolitan advancement and boosting the quality and livability of metropolitan life.
The Government will continue to embrace a multi-pronged method to promote metropolitan farming, consisting of presenting metropolitan farming aspects into the preparation phase of the Northern Metropolis, offering technical and monetary support to the market, and establishing modernised hydroponic farms-cum-stalls on roofs of the Tin Shui Wai Public Market and the Kwu Tung North New Development Area Public Market slated for conclusion in the coming years.
In addition, BEAM Society Limited has actually included metropolitan farming into the evaluation plan of the Building Environmental Assessment Method Plus, which turns into one of the signs for green structures with a view to motivating designers to consist of city farms in personal advancement tasks.