| | The
Vegetable Marketing Organization (VMO) is a self-financing, non-profit making
concern established in 1946 under the authority vested in the Director of Marketing
by the Agricultural Products (Marketing) Ordinance, Cap. 277. The
VMO was setup to assist in the post-war rehabilitation of local farming and to
provide facilities for the orderly and efficient marketing of vegetables as a
means to promote the development of vegetable farming and to improve the socio-economic
status of the farming community. The
VMO operates a wholesale vegetable market at 757 Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha
Wan, Kowloon, and two vegetable collection depots (Lam Tei depot and Kam Tin depot)
in the New Territories. The post of Director of Marketing is currently held by
the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation,
but the VMO remains separated from the civil service. |
