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Singapore: Meet the local farmers growing vegetables in underused spaces to feed S’pore sustainably

For more than a decade, Mr Allan Lim has encouraged many Singaporeans to take up urban farming. PHOTO: SPH MEDIA/BENNY LOH

They plant produce in places like rooftops and community gardens to boost food security and build community spirit

The Straits Times
Jan 12, 2023

Excerpt:

Since 2012, EGC has trained scores of urban farmers, created over 270 food gardens in a variety of underused spaces, and inspired countless others to try their hand at urban farming. It was rewarded for its achievements in 2021, when it received the President’s Award for the Environment, Singapore’s highest sustainability accolade.

ComCrop, for its part, has popularised rooftop farming, since Mr Lim, 50, set up the firm in 2011. It is Singapore’s first and only commercial rooftop farming company, and has helped to promote homegrown produce in local supermarkets, guide the country’s standards on urban agriculture, and shape courses on the subject in schools.

Mr Lim shares: “We want to champion the idea that there is a nobility in growing food. It is a higher calling to feed people with good food grown sustainably.”

Singapore has been slowly but steadily preparing ourselves to produce 30 per cent of our nutritional needs locally. Here is the total number of local farms as of March 2022.

Read the complete article here.