Commentary: Is Singapore’s decades-long shift away from agriculture about to take a U-turn?

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The food industry can thrive in land-scarce Singapore, looking at other small but successful food exporting countries, says RSIS’ Paul Teng.

SINGAPORE: Singapore has gone through such spectacular changes in its bicentennial history that today’s visitors to the country may be forgiven if they think it has always been a glitzy concrete shopping paradise and financial hub.

Recently more calls for a renascent food production and processing sector have been made, not just to encourage increased production for food security but also as a potential value-adding sector which could foster new livelihoods and even contribute to exports of products and intellectual property. This vision was given a concrete domestic target on Thursday when Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli announced that the country will aim to produce

Both not only export primary produce but also convert imported primary produce into food or other products in varying degrees of sophistication for export. The FVO is sustained by subscriptions from its members and grants from public agencies for services performed. It works with the government but is not a government agency.

 

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