How Singapore is leading the way in efficient urban farming.

Singapore, a crowded city with over 5 million inhabitants is aiming to locally produce 30% of its nutritional needs by 2030. With limited space available on the ground they have to be creative in where to farm.

[elladailylife]

Your farm looks like a little slice of heaven

[pebblepod]

It's treated sewage is sometimes used for agriculture, but if they get a whole cities worth of sewage, they could become even more secure & self sufficient. Even untreated sewage was used in ancient japan without problems.

[ofwretirementjourney]

Ep 11 - Pilipino and Singaporean wife farmland hunting in Philippines.
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[caver]

This type of farming requires large quantities of water and chemicals ( which may or maybe not balanced) and a constant supply of electricity, which in Singapore comes from burning gas . Much of the water in Singapore from Osmosis which is highly energy intensive, and also requires the water to be mixed with normal water, as this water is demineralised . Hydroponics can only grow a limited number of crops, and will never replace classic farms. Singapore will have to reduce its population to become sustainable

[kaf]

People need to change their thinking about what is “waste” if sewage systems are designed to keep toxic substances from contaminating effluent it could easily used to grow most of a cities food and the toxic chemicals would be far easier to be recycled instead of the current system of containing the environment.
Good work Singapore!

[razjackson]

More than 70% of New Zealand's native forests have been razed to make way for human economic use, mostly farms, with the fastest rate of deforestation occurring in the 1890's when 10% of NZ's native forests was destroyed in a single decade!

When people say conventional farming or any type of land-intensive farming is more 'natural' than urban farming, they've got no idea what they're talking about.

[neddyladdy]

How does one measure the efficiency of farming? And, how efficient is this style of farming?
It is expected to ease the reliance on imports, that's good. Imports are currently 90% of consumption, how much is this style of farming expected to decrease the reliance on imports ?

[BitJunkie]

"Uses less electricity water and resources" It's using less city water and power than crops grown on a field using rain and sun? No. Vertical farming is cool but this is just a lie