The rooftops of nine multi-storey carparks in Singapore will be converted for use to farm vegetables and other food crops later this year. The tender for the sites was launched yesterday by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA): five single sites in Ang Mo Kio, Tampines, Toa Payoh, Hougang and Choa Chu Kang and two cluster sites - which comprise two sites each - in Sembawang and Jurong West.
Their sizes range from 1,808 sq m - about one-third of a football field - to 3,311 sq m. Each site is up for tender for a term of three years. For cluster sites, the successful tenderer will be awarded all the sites within the cluster.
The launch is one of the strategies adopted by the SFA to increase local food production as part of Singapore's "30 by 30" goal - to produce 30 per cent of the country's nutritional needs locally by 2030, said SFA and the Housing Board in a joint statement.
Read more at The Straits Times.
