SINGAPORE: Nine companies have been awarded grants totalling S$39.4 million under a scheme to strengthen Singapore's food security, the Singapore Food Agency said on Wednesday .supports efforts to boost the production of commonly consumed food items like eggs, vegetables and fish.
SFA said that seven of the nine awardees have accepted the grant, including six vegetable farms and Chew’s Agriculture, an egg farm. Chew’s Agriculture will construct additional houses to ramp up its production of hen shell eggs. The houses will be equipped with an integrated climate control system along with egg and manure collection systems, minimising egg breakage and maximising egg production.
Ms Fu on Tuesday visited ComCrop and I.F.F.I. The grant will give the companies"an added boost to adopt highly productive farming systems to ramp up production over the next 6 to 24 months", she said in a Facebook post.
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