WAS ‘30 BY 30’ GOAL UNREALISTIC?
Under the government’s refreshed food-resilience strategy, local farms are now expected to meet 20 per cent of Singapore’s fibre needs, and 30 per cent of protein meats by 2035.
But the revised targets do not mean that the original goal was a failure, analysts said.
Professor Veera Sekaran, from the Regenerative Agritech Centre at the National University of Singapore, described the earlier target as “aspirational” – at a time when regional tensions put food security under the spotlight, drawing many into the sector who “had very little agricultural knowledge and not enough expertise”.
