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Local farms need all the help for Singapore’s food security roadmap to stay on track
It’s a business at the end of the day and there will be setbacks. But this is an industry we can’t afford to fail.
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Green Harvest, a glass greenhouse farm in Singapore, has the capacity to produce four tonnes of fresh greens daily on 150,000 sq ft of land.
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Ritu Bhalla
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The world must produce 50 per cent more food to accommodate a population expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There will be a smaller supply of arable land, more erratic weather, rising sea levels and a likelihood of supply chain disruptions caused by natural disasters and geopolitical uncertainties.
For a small country like Singapore with no natural resources, limited land supply and dependency on imports for 90 per cent of its food, the stakes are even higher. To address its food security issue, Singapore in 2019 announced its 30 by 30 goal
