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To relieve financial distress suffered by farmers adversely affected by natural disasters and found eligible.
The Emergency Relief Fund Ordinance, Chapter 1103 of the Laws of Hong Kong, provides for the establishment and administration of the Emergency Relief Fund.
Funding Scope
1. Stock houses and farm buildings destroyed or severely damaged*
- Level of Grant: Assessment is to be made on the basis of 50% of cost of replacement, up to a maximum of HKD23,910.
- Condition of Grant: Grants only payable to those who claim or appear to earn livelihood by farming.
2. Rehabilitation grants for loss of crops or livestock#
- Level of Grant: Please refer to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD)'s website.
- Condition of Grant: Generally, only genuine small full-time farmers adversely affected by a natural disaster could be eligible for consideration.
*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.
#The captioned grant is issued on a household basis, and hence each household can only submit one application per incident.
- Generally, only genuine small full-time farmers should be considered and large-scale farmers or high income farmers will not be eligible except in unusual circumstances of extreme hardship.
- Applicants at least half of whose income does not come from farming should be rejected.
- If less than one-third of the whole farm is damaged, no grant should be given unless there are exceptional circumstances.
- For mixed farms, farmers are allowed to claim grants under the appropriate enterprises but subject to one applicable maximum whichever is the highest.
- If a farmer has received or will receive a grant as a result of a previous natural disaster which happened less than 7 days ago and no significant new damage occured in the farm, no grant should be given except in unusual circumstances of extreme hardship.
- Application for Emergency Relief Fund for Agriculture & Fisheries Industry must be made within the respective time limit after the date of incident.
- Applicants can submit applications via AFCD's online application form.
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