Singapore’s Bold Plan to Build the Farms of the Future

Singapore currently imports 90 of its food supply. The government has laid out an ambitious goal to produce 30 of its own food by 2030. Urban farms are popping up inside outside and everywhere in between as the world's urban population continues to grow. These might just be the farms of the future and construction will need to know how to build them. The groundwork has already been laid for edible landscaping in singapore thanks to a 2009 city planning policy called lush which stands for landscaping for urban spaces and high rises. The process can be quite energy intensive and after labor energy and technology costs it can be hard for urban farmers to compete with the price of the food they are producing. It has become a well oiled ecosystem or almost an ecosystem at this point in a sense the groundwork is already laid for edible landscaping in the city. The city has built 260 edible gardens in sing Singapore whether it's for homes hotels restaurants on. top of shopping malls in schools and then in a lot of various underutilized land. around the city over the last decade bjorn has seen the sector shift from being. led by smaller farmers like himself to getting major government and industry investment so you. have a number of big commercial players coming in whether it’s from the fish farms. or the egg farms you know we you have uh technology providers coming from holland. uh from japan wanting to use singapore as a platform as a launch pad for. their technology it has Become a wellOiled ecosystems or almost a ecosystem atthis. point in this. point at this time in asense the groundwork has been laid to build edible landscape in the city in 2017 in 2017 lush was updated to include a provision that allowed rooftop farms to count towards the required landscape. replacement area of a building now with the government's 30 by 30 push to produce. more ofits own food urban farming looking like it could have its own renaissance. building quite literally on top of the success of lush so singapore is looking at. a strategy of increasing production from that one percent of land true technology approaches whether. it's building vertical farms factory indoor farms battery farm production systems for eggs and intensive. agriculture systems right now you're probably picturing something like this and to some degree you're. right indoor farming is part of singapore's plan artisan green grows spinach in a controlled. indoor environment using water instead of soil and pesticides using hydraulic power to rotate. and irrigate crops in modular vertical frames the racks can be stacked up to 9. meters and housed in outdoor greenhouses. It can be very energy intensive but while controlled environments can help avoid some of. the pitfalls of traditional farming like water pollution caused by pesticide runoff the process can also be hard. for urban Farmers to competition with the cost of food. It's also important to make singaporean. government's food supply more resilient to make its food Supply more resilient the sing Singaporean government has set a target of producing 30 of  its own food by 2030 to make it more resilient in the event of a global pandemic or geopolitical tensions disrupt the supply chain. To learn more about urban farming visit singapore's urban farming website. The Singaporean government has also set a goal of producing 30 of its food by 2030 to be able to produce more of its food within your. own borders. To see more of the city's food supply by 2030 go to: singapore.gov. Singapore.au/singapore/30/30-30-food-by-20/food-sourcing-sustainable-sustainability-solution-satellite-says-the-singaporean-government-and-the government-of-succeeding-sustained-business-sector-and sucreative-food sustaining-food supply-solutions-sources.