A Singapore Government Agency Website
Newsletter home Newsletter home
Subscribe
  • Food Supply
  • Food Safety
  • Corporate News
  • Myth-busters
  • Infographics & How-to's
  • Videos
Click to search
Advanced Search
Date Range:
 
Back to Basic Search
Image Food Supply Farms transform, automate & innovate
Food Supply

Farms transform, automate & innovate

Commercial intensive farming can be laborious. By applying automation and innovation, farms can reduce manual toil and improve both the yield and quality of farm produce.
By Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore Published 01 Jan 2017 | Updated 17 Mar 2021
  • Share this on Facebook
  • Share this on Twitter
  • Share this on E-mail
  • Share this on WhatsApp
  • Print this document
Image

 

Leafy greens grower Kok Fah Technology Farm (KFTF) is among the farms making headway in leveraging new technology to produce more. Mr Wong Kok Fah and his brothers succeeded their father’s vegetable farming business in 1979. Today, the farm is run by the second and third-generation family members. Throughout the years, KFTF has been a forerunner in test-bedding and adopting automation and innovation. Some examples include:

  • Drip irrigation-cum-fertilisation (‘fertigation’) system
    A trial that combines and automates both watering and fertilising processes. This trial is part of larger research on cultivating vegetables using multi-tier structures and coco peat (a combination of coconuts husk fibre and decomposing plant materials).

    2
  • Automatic earth flow composting
    Helps to transform vegetable waste into high quality compost, which speeds up crop cycles and adds more harvest cycles. It also cuts down the time needed to generate compost from 30 days to 1 day.
    3
  • Mechanisation of the seeding process
    Reduces manpower needs and increases vegetable growth rate by 20 percent.
    4

 

Marine Life Aquaculture

Technology and automation is truly the way to go in increasing productivity. Marine Life Aquaculture used to manually transfer 100,000 fish fingerlings from land to offshore sea cages 100 metres away. That process took one week. With a new live fish pump, the process is automated and takes just one day. Integrated with imaging and scanning technology, fingerlings can also be automatically graded and counted.

8

Seng Choon Farm

Established in the 1980s, Seng Choon is another long-surviving Singapore agricultural business that has become more productive than ever. In its farm, the climate-controlled poultry housing system allows for automated feeding, egg collection, and manure collection. Elsewhere in the production process, an egg grading machine ensures that only quality and clean eggs are selected for sale, while a robot helps with packing. Over the years, Seng Choon has increased its production by 30 percent without increasing its personnel headcount.

7

Seng Choon innovatively applies photo-imaging technology to sift out dirty eggs before packing them for sale. Such automation ensures accuracy and requires little manpower.

6

A robot at Seng Choon transfers and stacks trays of eggs onto pallets for delivery.

5

Seng Choon’s feed mill conveyor system automatically delivers chicken feed into the bio-secured poultry houses.

Tap into AVA’s Agriculture Productivity Fund (APF) for farm upgrades and R&D. Find out more about APF here.

9

Tags:

  • Agriculture
  • Singapore farmers
  • Technology
  • Horticulture
  • Aquaculture
Featured on Facebook
  1. Let's shape the future of our food story together Let's shape the future of our food story together 03 Jun 2021
Popular Stories
  1. Food Safety, Corporate News, Food Supply SG50 Special: Singapore's Food Farms - A Story of Then and Now 13 Mar 2015
  2. Food Safety, Food Supply Diversifying Singapore's sources of pork 01 Jan 2017
  3. Food Supply Resilient importers bring in new egg supply from Europe 14 Apr 2020
  4. Food Supply Singapore’s Modern Farms Series: Singapore Aquaculture Technologies 11 Oct 2018
Recommended Stories
Image
Corporate News, Food Supply A new approach to farm land tenders 01 Jan 2017
Popular Stories
  1. Food Safety, Corporate News, Food Supply SG50 Special: Singapore's Food Farms - A Story of Then and Now 13 Mar 2015
  2. Food Safety, Food Supply Diversifying Singapore's sources of pork 01 Jan 2017
  3. Food Supply Resilient importers bring in new egg supply from Europe 14 Apr 2020
  4. Food Supply Singapore’s Modern Farms Series: Singapore Aquaculture Technologies 11 Oct 2018
Featured on Facebook
  1. Let's shape the future of our food story together Let's shape the future of our food story together 03 Jun 2021
{1}
{1}
{1}
  • Food Supply
  • Food Safety
  • Corporate News
  • Myth-busters
  • Infographics & Tips
  • Videos

Food for Thought is a digital publication by

SFA home

SUBSCRIBE

Write to the Editor

© 2023 Singapore Food Agency

  • Privacy Statement
  • Terms of Use
  • Rate this Website
  • Attribution

Last updated on Tuesday, April 14, 2020

  • Facebook
Best viewed on the latest Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari. Adobe Reader is required for viewing and printing the Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.