Urban Vertical Farming: Growing Rice And Fish In A CIty Like Singapore

Innovators from Aqualita Ecotechnology have developed a shipping container fish farming system while scientists from the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory are testing out a multi-storey rice farm. They show us how their urban farms are designed to fit into space-squeezed Singapore and also how their fish and rice have been genetically improved to thrive in a city.

00:00 Fish farm in a shipping container
01:08 Vertical rice farm at Lim Chu Kang
01:46 Genetically-improved seabass at St John’s Island
02:53 How rice is selectively bred
03:26 Would you eat city-farmed rice or fish?

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[prestonblackburn]

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[razjackson]

Yes I would 100% eat rice and fish and other produce grown in closed system urban farms. I live in New Zealand and, unlike what most people think, there is a lot of pollution from farms getting into our natural systems e.g. nitrates leaching into our waterways now means that even our drinking water has a lot of nitrates in it; farm run-offs have made Selwyn river in Christchurch too polluted to even swim in; not to mention all the greenhouse gas that's released unchecked from livestock in open systems. Did you know that NZ has lost 71% of it's native forests through human induced deforestation - what you see on TV and in ads is just what they've left untouched because those areas are too difficult to convert to farms e.g. mountain areas and wetlands etc.

New food growing technologies is how Singapore will leapfrog other countries which have in the past had a land advantage. And another plus is that Singapore hasn't got any existing powerful and rich farm lobbies that pressure governments into not taking any climate action.

Unsurprisingly, conventional farmers in NZ are now experiencing less and less yield every year and more problems from droughts, floods and other extreme weather events that are becoming more common due to climate change, but they are still so fixed in their ways to want change. So the faster a country adopts and adapts new technologies like in this video, the higher the chances of them winning. This is very exciting for Singapore!

[papa-dtcv]

Hope Singapore build super large sea farms like those in China, Norway soon. 1million ton will bring the price down..

[fuzhiyuan]

Selective breeding is entirely different from genetically modified..
It’s more like survival of the fittest.. And let the fittest breed..
Global food security will be threatened due to climate changes as droughts, floods and other natural disasters become more common/severe.. This initiative is paramount to our own survival.. My only hope was that we can produce enough on time before a real catastrophe strikes..

[StillwatersFisheries]

Hello, i wanted to know if anyone has had experience with covering rice with bug nets to avoid using chemical spray.? As in does the netting affect the rice growth?

[Kenhraim]

If there is nothing wrong with the food, then why not? Seems good to me

[emilyhall]

Are pesticides used? Nutritional content is comparable to if not better than food from other sources?

[lpm]

Saw this in a china farm. The water from the fish tank reused as liquid fertiliser for the vegetables in the farm nxt door.

[blackwolfinn]

survival of the fittest genetic, of course i would eat that

[nat]

City farm or natural farm both have an issue. Many farms raise so much fishes and to prevent illnesses from festering in the waters, they added in a huge amount of pesticide in the water to make sure the fishes are healthy. To pass those stringent tests from the food safety department, many farms stop adding pesticides to the water a few weeks before the harvest of fishes. Hence, I am still a bit skeptical if there’s such manipulation even with city farms so I am unsure if it is indeed better than natural farms.

[Poriecross]

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[pursuitofmine]

We dun eat fish from city farm or natural farm.
We just eat fish from our more than 67 rivers, countless streams and brooks and endless paddy fields.😃
We eat rice from our vast green yellow paddy fields i.e. 12.8 million hectares of farm land out of 67.8 million hectares of land.
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