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Singapore to grow high-tech farming with 18ha agri-food innovation park

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A plot of land equivalent to 33 football fields in size will serve as Singapore’s farming hothouse, as the country seeks to develop and export know-how in the emerging agricultural technology sector.

A plot of land equivalent to 33 football fields in size will serve as Singapore’s farming hothouse, as the country seeks to develop and export know-how in the emerging agricultural technology sector.

The 18ha set aside for the Agri-Food Innovation Park at Sungei Kadut seeks to bring together a range of high-tech farming and research and development (R&D) activities, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koon told Parliament yesterday.

The park will have indoor plant factories, insect farms and animal feed production facilities, and agencies are working with local and overseas industry leaders to develop its first phase, which should be ready from the second quarter of 2021.

 

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