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Singapore’s homegrown farming dream is beginning to fade Bloomberg Updated Wed, 24 July 2024 at 10:06 am SGT · 6-min read A worker walks between hydroponics growing panels at the Livfresh farm in Singapore. (Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg) By Audrey Wan and Low De Wei (Bloomberg) – By most measures, Karthik Rajan’s farm in Singapore is a success story. Run from a two-hectare plot of land in the island’s north, LivFresh has been supplying major supermarkets with spinach, lettuce and other Asian green vegetables since 2022. The firm turned profitable in March. It may still close down by the end of the year. Rajan is one of a small number of entrepreneurs attempting to farm in a country smaller than New York City. Like most of his peers, he’s facing an uncertain future as funding runs dry, with investments in homegrown agricultural startups cratering over the past few years. Since the start of 2023, at least half a dozen large farms have shut down or scaled back operations...

  Why are so many famous chefs opening restaurants in Singapore's new hotels? From Michelin-starred Dutch chef Sergio Herman to popular French pastry chef Cedric Grolet and sustainable cooking upstart Josh Niland, the dining scene in Singapore’s hotels is exploding with gastronomic headliners. From left: Cedric Grolet, Josh Niland and Sergio Herman. (Photos: Aik Chen/8 Days, The Edition Singapore & Sergio Herman Group) By Karen Tee 19 Ap...

  IN FOCUS: Untangling Singapore-Malaysia food fights - what's it got to do with identity and pride? Did laksa come from Katong or Penang; Siglap or Sarawak? Maybe that’s not the right question, as CNA's Chew Hui Min finds out. On the left is a bowl of laksa from Donald & Lily @ The Bendahari market in Melaka, Malaysia, and on the right, Janggut laksa in Paya Lebar, Singapore. (Photos: CNA/Zamzahuri Abas and Raydza Rahman) Chew Hui Min ...

  Commentary: Salt is critical in Asian cuisine, but we’re eating too much of it Reducing our sodium intake is a small measure that can save lives and healthcare costs - but Singapore’s hawker food is heavy on salt, says cookbook author Pamelia Chia. A bowl of fishball noodles. The seemingly innocuous spheres of fish paste are major sodium culprits. (Photo: CNA/Chew Hui Min) Pamelia Chia 05 Feb 2024 06:00AM ...

  Salt rising, river slowing: Climate change drives harsh realities for people in the Mekong Delta Asia’s Great Climate Frontiers: Southern Vietnam is the country’s food bowl. But water shortages are driving farmers to despair, with many of them opting to move to other provinces to find work. The Mekong Delta is the food bowl of Vietnam. (Photo: Jack Board/CNA)   BAC LIEU, Vietnam: At the end of the line for the Mekong River, Southeast Asia’s longest and probably most important waterway, there are signs of man’s attempts to both brave and harness nature.  After some 5,000km from its headwater in the Tibetan plateau, the Mekong flows through six countries and eventually ends up emptying out into a complex series of vein-like ca...