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After all, Singapore gets more than 90 […]","datePublished":"2021-02-18","dateModified":"2021-03-14","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/author\/aria-hernandez\/#Person","name":"Aria Hernandez","url":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/author\/aria-hernandez\/","identifier":189,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/608bdd364ce3d8eeec63bc5678f7be7526d507ca0f5e84db530c1808f2e5c275?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/608bdd364ce3d8eeec63bc5678f7be7526d507ca0f5e84db530c1808f2e5c275?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TheHomeGround Asia","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-07-22-222533.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-07-22-222533.jpeg","width":640,"height":640}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/1613621585002_news_foodsecurity_Featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/1613621585002_news_foodsecurity_Featured.jpg","height":626,"width":1280},"url":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/our-journey-to-food-security-in-an-eight-storey-fish-farm\/","commentCount":"3","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/our-journey-to-food-security-in-an-eight-storey-fish-farm\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2026-05-02 20:06:46","description":"I love the structure of your explanation.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"watch cnn live online free","url":"http:\/\/monitor.clickcease.com\/tracker\/tracker?id=c35uZQSek6ER7G&kw&nw=d&url=https:\/\/www.oneotv.com\/"}},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/our-journey-to-food-security-in-an-eight-storey-fish-farm\/#Comment2","dateCreated":"2026-04-27 18:47:59","description":"Excellent breakdown of the topic.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"women vans sneaker","url":"https:\/\/globalshoepalace.com\/product-category\/women\/vans-women-shoes"}},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/our-journey-to-food-security-in-an-eight-storey-fish-farm\/#Comment3","dateCreated":"2026-04-23 20:41:20","description":"I learned something new today.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Salomon shoe sizing","url":"https:\/\/globalshoepalace.com\/product-category\/women\/Salomon-Women-Shoes"}}],"about":["Asia","Food","Local","Singapore"],"wordCount":1034,"articleBody":"Fill my belly!An eight-storey fish farm sounds a little flashy, no? It\u2019s a swim away from the fish farms we tend to see on television, typically single-floored and even offshore. But it\u2019s almost an innovative necessity here in Singapore, where food security has long been an issue. After all, Singapore gets more than 90 per cent of its food from outside its shores.\u00a0Worries were only exacerbated during COVID-19 in Singapore by the rows of empty shelves that sprawled across our supermarkets, naturally pushing us into panic buying mode. And despite politicians and supermarket chain representatives telling us to calm down, we\u2019d really felt like our food security had been threatened for a moment there.\u00a0Academia.sgA strong reason why we can take confidence in our food security is our \u201c30 by 30\u201d vision. Formed in 2019, the goal by Singapore Food Authority seeks to ensure that 30 per cent of Singapore\u2019s nutritional needs are self-supplied before 2030. And so, the government has been putting sizeable amounts of money into innovative solutions that can get us there.Apollo Aquaculture\u2019s flashy eight-storey fish farm is one of those innovative solutions.\u00a0So, what about this eight-storey fish farm?Decked out with high tech equipment, the fish farm will be able to produce up to 3,000 tonnes of hybridised grouper, coral trout, and shrimp annually. This vertical farming efficiency is more than six times that of established aquaculture operations in the country.\u00a0Urban Redevelopment Authority\/YouTubeThis isn\u2019t the Apollo Aquaculture\u2019s first foray into fish farming. They\u2019ve been around for a relatively long time, founded in 1969 and adopting cutting-edge methods from Germany, Japan, and Israel and implementing them across 300 of their farms in the region. Their farm in Lim Chu Kang is in fact three-storeys high and has been open for over a decade, producing close to 200 tonnes of fish for us to consume yearly.\u00a0Apollo Aquaculture uses the intricate data sets that it has built over the years to build a successful operation.\u00a0\u201cWe understand the amount of water required, the condition of the water, and the amount of feed \u2013 measured down to a single gram per cubic meter of water. As a result, we\u2019re able to produce fish in a much shorter time frame, at the right size for the market,\u201d said spokesperson Crono Lee.\u00a0Such is the efficiency that the company only needs to replace five percent of the water in their tanks at a time when contaminated by fish effluent, though the target is to bring that down to zero with the use of aquatic plants to clean and treat the water naturally. The amount of water wastage generated by the company is significantly less than that of many other onshore fish farms, where farmers routinely clean out and replace entire tanks.\u00a0And about the choice to go vertical, a key reason is the lack of land that our tiny little nation has in general.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re a very small country, and it\u2019s very difficult to secure land… So rather than building sideways, and expanding horizontally, why not expand vertically?\u201d said Lee.\u00a0Jumping on a well-populated list of sustainable farming initiatives in Singapore.Where fish is concerned, Apollo Aquaculture is not the only company working towards our 30 by 30 goal. For one, there\u2019s an offshore farm that opened in late-2019, approximately five kilometres off of Singapore\u2019s Changi Point Ferry Terminal. The farm uses a closed containment system to produce around 166 tonnes of barramundi, red snapper, and grouper each year across four tanks.\u00a0Urban Redevelopment Authority\/YouTubeThe system \u201ceffectively isolates the fishes from the seawater when the quality of the surrounding water turns poor,\u201d said Yih Tng.\u00a0Our initiatives also extend beyond fish. During the pandemic, efforts were put into allowing farms to ramp up on production and to accelerate local food production. These productive farming systems leverage technology and automation to reduce manpower and harness the power of artificial intelligence. So in a nutshell \u2013 they\u2019re super cool.\u00a0One of such super cool farms is I.F.F.I, a \u201cmega high-tech indoor vegetable farm\u201d that monitors its vegetables\u2019 growth. They\u2019ve also got an advanced environmental control system to give the greens all the love that they need, ensuring a even higher growth rate than traditional farms, which may get hit harder by environmental conditions and climate change.\u00a0And given Singapore\u2019s food waste problem with perishables, the farm also uses an innovative water treatment system to reduce bacteria in crops, while extending the shelf life of its produce. You’d be thankful for the kangkong in your fridge that stay fresh for a day or two longer.\u201cNo animals were harmed.\u201dUrban farming solutions are plentiful and important to Singapore, and they\u2019re also markers of the impressive tech that our social enterprises are using. We\u2019ve also got companies like Eat Just, who are taking sustainability to newfound levels, with the ability to grow cultured chicken meat in labs. Real animal cells are used to develop the chicken meat, and they might arguable even be more \u201cpure\u201d than live poultry.Eat JustThe real chicken meat that we eat always comes at the expense of chickens, which are frequently injected with antibiotics and hormones to meet the unyielding needs of modern supply chains. If you buy meat from Eat Just, you\u2019ll get meat with no antibiotics. As opposed to regular chicken, Eat Just\u2019s chicken has \u201cextremely low and significantly cleaner microbiological content\u201d.\u00a0You can, by the way, purchase Eat Just\u2019s lab-grown chicken soon enough, as they\u2019ve been given the green light to sell the product in Singapore. Perhaps in the years to come, we\u2019ll all be eating lab-grown meats and actually liking them. Besides, they\u2019re just about as \u2018artificial\u2019 (if not less artificial) than the supposed fresh foods that we eat on the daily.\u00a0Sustainability is the new normal. With the existential threat of climate change continuing to haunt us, the earlier Singapore gets a grip on its food security, the more days its residents would be able to live worry-free.\u00a0Join the conversations on THG’s\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram, and get the latest updates via\u00a0Telegram."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Destinations","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Singapore","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/\/singapore\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Our Journey to Food Security in an Eight-Storey Fish Farm","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/our-journey-to-food-security-in-an-eight-storey-fish-farm\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]