Rooftop Farms around Singapore: Comcrop's vision to harvest new ideas

Urban Farm DB summary

Published by JTC on 27 Feb 2019, this article describes urban farming company Comcrop, whose founder Allan Lim started his first community farm in Bukit Panjang in 2011, later ran a rooftop farm at *SCAPE, and then built a 36,000-square-foot facility with six greenhouses at a JTC site in Woodlands. The Woodlands farm grows leafy vegetables such as pak choy, lettuce and mizuna at high output; CEO Peter Barber states the first greenhouse alone can produce 40 to 50kg a day. Barber envisions placing farms in every neighbourhood in Singapore to employ locals and supply supermarkets, while Lim stresses the need to build agricultural research capability in Singapore.

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• 36,000 sq_ft

  floor area(comcrop woodlands farm)

  Design

  region

  Singapore

  year

  2019

  method

  6-greenhouse facility at JTC Woodlands site

• 40–50 kg_per_day

  daily output(leafy vegetable production)

  Yield

  region

  Singapore

  year

  2019

  method

  first greenhouse, pak choy/lettuce/mizuna

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• Food securitySupports
• Economic viabilitySupportsWith caveats