With a mission to ensure a resilient supply of safe food for Singapore, AVA constantly keeps a look out for more food types to import from existing and new sources. In addition, we have been leveraging on agricultural technology to help our farms raise productivity and contribute to meeting the nation’s demand.
Increasingly, we are also extending our R&D expertise to Singapore’s neighbours. In helping neighouring countries overcome their limitations in intensive farming and post-harvest technology, they will in turn become new sources of safe food imports for Singapore.
Minister of State for National Development and Defence, Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman and CEO of AVA, Ms Tan Poh Hong (far right) at the opening of Republic Polytechnic’s Aquaculture Centre.
He said: “It is important to develop the manpower capability to help transform the industry and achieve higher productivity. I am glad that Republic Polytechnic supports and nurtures the aquaculture industry by training a pool of skilled professionals for the future.”
AVA also supports the industry in capability development. Two students from Republic Polytechnic are currently on internship at AVA, and are involved in projects to study parasites in locally farmed food fish and feed nutrition for the growth of guppies. Dr Mohamad Maliki added: “I am confident that their project findings would come in handy for the industry.”