"Let's have pride in Singapore-grown produce"

When it comes to food production, Singapore has a specific goal. While the country will continue to diversify its food import sources, it aims to ramp up local production so it can meet 30 percent of the country's nutritional needs by 2030. Achieving this level of self-sufficiency will help guard against global supply-chain shocks and crop yield fluctuations that may come as climate change persists. Land constraints have led to a lack of "locally grown" products. Of Singapore's total of 720 km2, under 1% is used for conventional farming; the country imports some 90% of its food, said the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). No wonder, then, that the country's people are not exactly clamoring for locally-grown produce: there just may not be enough to go around. Farms in Lim Chu Kang and Sungei Tengah produced just 14 percent of leafy vegetables in 2019, said the SFA. However, the country has made good progress to push up those numbers, with companies adopting a high-tech, "farms of the ...