How Singapore is using tech to grow food without farmland

[@bioold8925]

Brilliant, to shut the unpredictable weather out! Then one can harvest all year round!

[@urbanstrencan]

Great to see symbiosis between tech and food production😊

[@MrMountainchris]

Imagine huge skyscrapers of these hydroponic farms in all cities all over the world. Imagine how much carbon we could cut from all the shipping of food that needs to be done.

[@CNBCi]

Thinking big!

[@nurmanbakri1645]

My Lovely Farm Product 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@swalihaturaliya8304]

super informative!!

[@azlymohammad5734]

Love this!

[@etienne4403]

Very positive!

[@nolonger9112]

Yup future farm have many way to chose from. From indoor farm to grow thing in tube.

[@MrAlanCristhian]

Normal agriculture also uses technology and modern farming to grow food.

[@dfdsfst12220]

In actual fact a lot of these farms close down due to bankruptcy. Just check the Singaporean news on straits times

[@Back_To_Basics]

Way to go Singapore 🇸🇬

[@dertythegrower]

Europe and the states and china already had this.. but cool

[@viewer-of-content]

I think Singapore's program is viewed as more sustainable because it'd be viewed as essential for national security unlike larger nations programs. Singapore doesn't have almost any land, and while traditional farming is typically much cheaper there's a lot of value in importing less food. Singapore currently imports something like 80% of their food from surrounding countries like Malaysia.

[@Betweoxwitegan]

​@@viewer-of-content90% I think it's 80% of their water supply or something, they are rapidly decoupling from their over reliance on essential imports to bolster their national security and thus attractiveness to FDI whilst gaining more geopolitical leverage Singapore like every nation will always be dependent on others but it should decouple from essential importation

[@j.trulyrandom]

Fancy ads

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[@daviddefortier5970]

The way they pack a few leaves into those fancy looking plastic containers, seems awefully wasteful. Like theres more plastic than actual food. Why not just bale the stuff in crates and send it off to the markets?

[@paknbagn9917]

just an AD

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[@tommyt1785]

German guy looks like he could be eating more of his home grown lettuce leaves and less chilli crab.