UK team boosts Singapore food security
Ag-tech firm Liberty Produce leads consortium to help boost fresh produce self-sufficiency in Asian nation
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An industry team led by ag-tech specialist Liberty Produce has won Innovate UK funding to develop innovative hybrid farming and greenhouse technologies to work towards Singapore’s food security and net-zero goals.
The award will see Liberty Produce jointly lead the Hybrid Advanced Research Vertical Farming Environment Systems and Technology (HARVEST) consortium with Singapore-based LivFresh, a high-precision controlled environment (HPCE) company. The UK’s James Hutton Institute and Republic Polytechnic Singapore (RP) are research partners.
The Singapore government has initiated a number of strategic policy initiatives with the goal of increasing self-production of its fresh produce by 30 per cent by 2030 via investment in high-tech farms, among other measures. Currently, Singapore imports over 90 per cent of its fo