ComCrop: Touring A Rooftop Farm In Singapore
The produce is inspected and packed before being shipped out to local supermarkets like FairPrice, ShengSiong and Redmart.
By Lester Ng
Little Day Out
3 July 2023
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The four-storey JTC industrial building at 15 Woodlands Loop is filled with small factories in the food trade. You will find manufacturers producing everything from dim sum to satay. What is less obvious is that there is another type of producer hidden away at the top of the building – ComCrop, a rooftop farm that grows vegetables using hydroponics.
ComCrop began as a community farm in 2011. However, it soon turned into a commercial venture in 2013, seeking out under-utilised rooftop spaces and turning them into a productive resource.
On a visit to ComCrop, conducted as part of a media tour for Go Green SG, we got to see how this rooftop urban farm is making use of technology to grow vegetables.
The vegetables at ComCorp are grown across five greenhouses and 30,000 square feet of greenhouse space on the rooftop of 15 Woodlands Loop.
The journey of a vegetable starts in the Seeding Room when it is first potted into a tray filled with moss that ComCrop imports from Europe. This process is automated with the use of a piece of machinery.
The use of technology and machinery is a theme that comes up again and again as we tour the rooftop farm.
ComCrop grows lettuce, kale, basil, mint and rosemary for sale. These are all done in the controlled environment of the greenhouses.
