{"id":83701,"date":"2026-09-10T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83701"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:22:00","slug":"singapores-s80-million-vertical-farm-must-pass-the-50-cent-test-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83701","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s S$80 million vertical farm must pass the 50-cent test to succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Local producers can bridge the price gap between their produce and those of importers by selling better<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">THE Singapore Food Agency\u2019s 2026 farmland tender closed in July. Two vegetable-farming plots in Lim Chu Kang and Sungei Tengah drew just five bidders; the Lim Chu Kang parcel received only a single bid \u2013 and even that was the applicant\u2019s second choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The lukewarm tender contrasts sharply with January\u2019s high-profile opening of the world\u2019s tallest indoor vertical farm \u2013 <a class=\"text-bt-blue-500 underline hover:text-bt-blue-600\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/smes\/singapore-food-output-gets-s80-million-boost-opening-greenphytos-vertical-farm-tallest-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an S$80 million facility<\/a> coming in at 23.3 metres and five storeys \u2013 built by home-grown agritech company Greenphyto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Its first-year output is 200 tonnes, but its total designed capacity is 2,000 tonnes \u2013 equivalent to that of dozens of hectares of vegetable fields. Greenphyto\u2019s produce already sits in major supermarkets such as FairPrice and Sheng Siong under the Hydrogreens brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/opinion-features\/singapores-s80-million-vertical-farm-must-pass-50-cent-test-succeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local producers can bridge the price gap between their produce and those of importers by selling better THE Singapore Food Agency\u2019s 2026 farmland tender closed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}