Secure SG Food Supply

Singapore “30 by 30”

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Due to Singapore’s small size, we are unable to devote large tracts of land for farming, making traditional methods of farming almost impossible. This situation effectively forces us to rely on imported food from external sources into Singapore, which has resulted in us importing more than 90% of our food. As demonstrated countless times throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we are vulnerable to supply shocks and disruptions that happen in other countries due to issues that we may not be able to influence or control. Thus, in order to increase our food resilience, the government has set a 30 by 30 goal to meet 30% of Singaporean’s nutritional needs by 2030 with less than 1% of Singapore’s land area set aside for farming. This situation requires our local farming methods to be highly productive, climate-resilient and resource-efficient, while producing high quality crops. With an average increase in nutritional content in local produce, each crop would contain more nutrients on average, resulting in the reduction of the number of crops required to fulfil the nutritional needs of Singaporeans. This results in reducing the amount of space required for farming, allowing us to reach the 30 by 30 goal at a faster rate. One of the ways of doing so would be to alter the wavelength and intensity of light as we have mentioned in the other pages. An illustrated cartoon showing how such a system would be carried out is shown below.