Singapore Awards Over $23 Million To Grant Call For R&D
Sustainable Urban Food Production
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The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has awarded over $23 million in funding to 12 projects under the grant call for research and development (R&D) in ‘Sustainable Urban Food Production’. The grant call is under the Singapore Food Story (SFS) R&D Programme which aims to develop the local agri-tech R&D ecosystem and sustainable urban food solutions to support Singapore’s “30 by 30” goal for food security. The grant call will provide funding
support for innovative research projects that address challenges facing the tropical aquaculture and urban agriculture industries
Genetic Improvement of Indoor
Farming Crops
National University of Singapore (NUS);
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL)
Improving yield, cultivating
efficiency and nutrient quality of
hydroponically-grown crops with
rapid testing of growth conditions
and gene expression analysis
Nanyang Technological University (NTU);
ComCrop; Artisan Green
Real-time crop health monitoring
and nutrient analysis system for
waste reduction and productivity
improvement in hydroponic
cultivation
Nanyang Technological University (NTU);
Panasonic Factory Solutions
Urban-metabolic Farming-module
(UmFm): a novel farming module
towards eco-resilient megacity
farmscape in 2030
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT);
Tohoku University; Netatech; Tampines
Town Council
