To ensure food security, the Singapore Food Agency adopts the strategy of “three food baskets”, the foremost being the diversification of food sources. It also boosts local food production through funding for agriculture research and technology adoption, creative planning of farm spaces, and efforts to drum up community support for local farmers.

“30-by-30, agri-tech, urban farming” — do these terms sound foreign to you? Farming in Singapore may have a language of its own, but don’t be thrown off by jargon! Here is a simplified guide on what some of these terms mean.