Fact · food · 2024
Total agricultural land in Hong Kong (end-2024)
香港農地總面積（2024年底）
Figure and reference date
Approx. 340 hectares of active farmland
約 340 公頃（活躍耕種）
Notes and definition
AFCD: concentrated in Yuen Long, Sheung Shui and Tai Po; ~6,300 ha left fallow/latent.
Other figures in this group (food)
Figures in the same group are not necessarily additive — check the basis note above first. Food culture.
| Item / 項目 | Figure / 數字 | As of / 時點 | Source / 來源 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total food-service receipts (annual) 食肆總收益（按年） | HK$109.6 billion 1,096 億港元 Total food-service receipts in 2025 were about HK$109.6 billion, per C&SD annual statistics. | 2025 | Hong Kong: The Facts — Retailing and Food Services |
| FEHD food business licence categories 食環署食肆及相關牌照類別 | Food business licences beyond restaurants and guesthouses 食肆、賓館以外的食物業牌照 Licensing is administered by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, covering restaurants, food factories, cold stores, delicatessens and dairy premises among others. | 2026-10-10 | FEHD: Licence and permit types and fees |
| FEHD restaurant licences (2025) 食環署食肆牌照數目（2025年） | 16,871 licences (12,474 general + 4,397 light refreshment) 16,871 張（普通食肆 12,474＋小食食肆 4,397） FEHD restaurant licences in 2025 (general restaurants + light refreshment restaurants). | 2025 | FEHD: Licensing statistics |
| Local agricultural production (2023) 本地農業生產質素（2023） | $485 million market value of local crops 本地生產農作物市值 4.85 億港元 GovHK factsheet on agriculture and fisheries: 2023 output led by live chickens, pigs and vegetables. | 2023 | GovHK: Hong Kong: The Facts — Agriculture & Fisheries |
Other figures from the same official source
These figures come from the same registered document: “AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong” (Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department). Being in one document does not make them additive.
| Item / 項目 | Figure / 數字 | As of / 時點 | Source / 來源 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of farms 農場數目 | about 2,500 (as stated currently on AFCD’s page updated in May 2026) 約 2 500 個（漁護署 2026 年 5 月更新頁面所列「現時」數字） Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, “Agriculture in Hong Kong” page (updated May 2026): “There are at present about 2,500 farms in Hong Kong.” This is a present-tense statement on a departmental web page rather than a figure for a statistical year, so the date must be quoted with it. | 2026 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Persons directly employed in agriculture 農業直接僱用人數 | about 4,300 farmers and workers (as stated currently on AFCD’s page updated in May 2026) 約 4 300 名農民及工人（漁護署 2026 年 5 月更新頁面所列「現時」數字） The AFCD page states that Hong Kong’s present 2,500-odd farms “directly employ about 4,300 farmers and workers”. That is a farm-only direct-employment count, while the Hong Kong Yearbook 2024 figure of 17,759 covers agriculture and fisheries together: the two differ in both date and scope and must not be added or subtracted (see /calibre#farm-fishery-employment). | 2026 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Farmland area by use 耕地用途面積 | 342 ha vegetables, 116 ha flowers, 250 ha fruit trees, 4 ha miscellaneous crops (end of 2025) 蔬菜 342 公頃、花卉 116 公頃、果樹 250 公頃、雜糧作物 4 公頃（2025 年年底） The AFCD page gives the farmland used at the end of 2025 as 342 hectares for vegetables, 116 for flowers, 4 for miscellaneous crops and 250 for fruit trees. These are departmental figures for farmland listed by use, not a land-use census, and must not be added into a “total farmland” figure. | 2025-12 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Total value of local agricultural production 本地農業生產總值 | about HK$861 million (2025) 約 8.61 億元（2025 年） The AFCD page puts the total value of local agricultural production in 2025 at HK$861 million — HK$354 million from crops, HK$198 million from livestock and HK$309 million from poultry. The total already contains those three components, so they must not be added to it again or mixed with components of another year. | 2025 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Gross value of crop production 農作物生產總值 | about HK$354 million (2025) 約 3.54 億元（2025 年） The AFCD page gives crop production in 2025 as HK$354 million, one component of the same year’s HK$861 million overall total. It must not be added to, subtracted from, or converted into the HK$385 million reported for 2024 in Chapter 18 of the Hong Kong Yearbook 2024. | 2025 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Farm output per day 農場日產量 | 42 tonnes of vegetables, 11,500 live chickens and 167 live pigs per day (2025) 蔬菜 42 公噸、活雞 11 500 隻、生豬 167 頭（2025 年日產量） The AFCD page gives the 2025 farm output per day as 42 tonnes of vegetables, 11,500 live chickens and 167 live pigs. These are quantities in different units and must not be added into any “total output”. | 2025 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
| Local supply share of farm produce 本地農產供應比例 | 1.7% of vegetables, 100% of live poultry, 6.5% of live pigs (2025) 蔬菜 1.7%、活家禽 100%、活豬 6.5%（2025 年） The AFCD page states that in 2025 local farms supplied 1.7% of the vegetables, 100% of the live poultry and 6.5% of the live pigs consumed locally. These are separate ratios and must not be added into a self-sufficiency figure; the page does not explain the 100% for live poultry, and this site adds no explanation of its own. | 2025 | AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong |
How to cite this figure
Hong Kong Story, “Total agricultural land in Hong Kong (end-2024)”, https://hongkongstory.org/en/facts/agric-farmland-2025, data as at 2024 (retrieved ＿).
中文：香港紀事館，〈香港農地總面積（2024年底）〉，https://hongkongstory.org/facts/agric-farmland-2025，資料時點 2024（查閱日期 ＿）。
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Registered source
AFCD: Agriculture in Hong Kong
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
Official document dated 2026-05; last checked by this site 2026-10-21.
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