4 June 2024
Morning Shot: Local farm closures - is Singapore's food security at risk?
Since 2021, vegetable production in Singapore has hovered below 5 percent of total consumption, while seafood production stood at around 7 to 8 percent.
This is some ways off from the nation's ambitious target of growing 30 percent of its food locally by 2030.
The high-tech farming sector, which is crucial to helping achieve this goal, appears to be struggling, having already witnessed many local farms either close up shop or scale down their operations this year.
So what is plaguing the industry, and is Singapore's food security at risk?
On this episode of Morning Shot, William Chen, Director, NTU Food Science & Technology Programme, Nanyang Technological University & Lee Eng Keat, Senior Adviser, Beanstalk Agtech share their insights.
Presented, Produced & Edited by: Emaad Akhtar
Photo credit: Straits Times

Download this podcast.