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The annual Agriculture Workshop organized by SFA and Urban Solutions & sustainability Innovation & Enterprise Office (USS IEO) in partnership with Singapore Agro-Food Enterprises Federation Limited (SAFEF), NUS Enterprise and Urban Agriculture Centre of Innovation (UA COI) was successfully held on 10th May 2024 at SFA.

This year, the theme “Understanding Your Farms’s Resource Consumption” had participants and stakeholder discussing and sharing on possibilities to improve resource efficiency and cost savings on farms through innovation and the use of technology.

Our CEO, Mr. Edwin Ong was honoured to be part of the panel discussion. He shared insights on the topic of how the selection and usage of efficient equipment in High-Tech farm can help to reduce the cost of production and how it can improve the off take ability of the produces. 

Recently, there have been some news reports about the arising challenge of operating High-Tech farms in Singapore, which has also caused public concerns pertaining to the Singapore government’s 30X30 plan. Many countries across the world including Singapore have been facing cases of High-Tech farm shutting or scaling down . These cases does not imply the total failure of the High-Tech farm industry or technology but are the natural evolution of the market economy forces. In fact, there are still many large corporates in the world that still believed in and have been actively investing in, researching, building and operating High-Tech farms.

The shutting down of High-Tech farms across the globe does not hinder our progress. We strongly believed that through learning from failures, continuous innovation, and investment in the research and development of new technologies, we will be able to make things right. We are confident that in the near future, High-Tech farm will be able to operate with very high efficiency and cost of production will be able to improve the economics that is crucial for the existence of such farm.

Arianetech will continue to work with stakeholder to enable these High-Tech farms to optimize their resource consumption especially in Super Efficient LED lighting technology and to provide solutions of affordable automation to reduce the cost of production.