Singapore to build farms on carpark rooftops
Singapore will convert the rooftops of nine multi-storey carparks into farms to grow vegetables and other food crops to meet domestic demand.
Illustrative image (Photo: Straitstimes) Singapore (VNA) – Singapore will
convert the rooftops of nine multi-storey carparks into farms to grow
vegetables and other food crops to meet domestic demand.
The Singapore Food Agency and the Housing
Board (HDB) said on May 12 that the project is
one of the strategies adopted by the SFA to realize Singapore’s 30 by 30 goal, which aims to
produce 30 percent of the country's nutritional needs
locally by 2030.
The project is slated to begin in the latter half of 2020, and the farms will be up for tender for a term of three years.
According to the SFA, it will continue working with the HDB to expand the project.
Singapore currently imports more than 90 percent
of its food supply./.
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