（第 9 项）傅丽珊女士问永续发展与环境部长：

(a) 本地垂直农场VertiVegies的退出将如何影响新加坡“30·30“的粮食安全目标？该农场本应是新加坡最大的室内蔬菜农场之一，可以让当地的绿色蔬菜产量提高10%。

(b) 新加坡食品局(SFA)采取了哪些其他措施来加快当地蔬菜产量的增长，2022年当地蔬菜产量约占食品总消费量的4%。

（第10项）陈慧玲小姐问永续发展与环境部长：

(a) 政府是否会考虑制定计划，支持本地农业公司利用或获取必要的知识产权，以支持新加坡实现“30·30“的本地粮食生产目标？

(b) 对于具备农业经营知识但不具备全面项目开发能力的公司，可以为其扩大农场规模提供哪些支持？

许宝琨医生（永续发展与环境部高级政务部长）（代表永续发展与环境部部长）：议长先生，请允许我一并回答议事程序表上的第 9 项和第 10 项问题。

议长先生：可以。

许宝琨医生：谢谢议长先生。在我们的“30·30“愿景中，我们的目标是建设农业食品生态系统的能力和能量，以实现高产、资源高效和气候适应性强的食品生产。多年来，新加坡食品局（SFA）逐步建立了由高产农场组成的农业食品生态系统，利用科学技术促进生产，并准备了必要的空间和基础设施。然而，与许多其他行业一样，我们的农产品行业一直面临着从新冠疫情到强大阻力的挑战，如高通胀压力和施工延误，尤其是在新冠肺炎疫情期间。

新加坡食品局正与我们的农场密切合作，通过各种举措来克服这些挑战，如促进监管审批，通过农业食品业转型基金（ACT）共同资助技术的采用，支持能力发展。迄今为止，6000 万新币的ACT基金已承诺为 60 个项目资助 2300 多万新元。ACT 基金可以支持农业系统知识产权的许可、获取或注册，以及咨询、分包、设计和开发服务的参与，这有助于提高我们的粮食产量。

农场还与具有互补优势和能力的伙伴合作，尤其是当他们考虑扩大规模时。他们与合作伙伴合作，可以带来他们可能不具备的技能和能力。当地农场还可以与食品研究人员合作，利用新加坡食品故事2.0科研计划，促进水产养殖、可持续都市农业、未来食品和食品安全方面的研发。

最初给予 VertiVegies 的农业用地现已重新招标给另一家农业食品企业，以进一步实现我们的“30·30“愿景。

我们农场的成功还取决于对本地产品的充足需求。因此，SFA 一直在与业界合作，通过各种措施提高需求量，包括支持农场和零售商成立供需汇总机构，以及开展宣传活动，提高公众对本地农产品的认识。消费者当然也可以尽自己的一份力量，选择购买贴有红色 “SG新鲜农产品 “标志的农产品，或在 “从农场到餐桌表彰计划 “下的餐饮企业就餐，该计划表彰在菜单中突出本地农产品的餐饮企业。

议长先生：有请傅丽珊女士。

傅丽珊女士（三巴旺集选区议员）：谢谢议长。我感谢高级政务部长的回答。我有一个补充问题。请问到目前为止，新加坡这种大型蔬菜农场的成功率是多少？

另一方面，在我们的住宅区内也有许多社区农场，甚至是城市农场，种植非常类似的蔬菜，而且相当成功。一个更加分散、本地化和社区化的蔬菜种植模式是否更加可行？

许宝琨医生：议长先生，感谢这位议员的提问。关于成功率的第一个问题，我认为这个问题不容易界定，因为今天当我们看一个农场时，我们会看他们的生产水平，例如他们可生产的吨数。尽管如此，具有规模经济的大型农场能够以更高效的速度生产产品，因此，当它们进入市场时，价格竞争力可能会更强。因此，我们将成功定义为农场能够生产并能够找到销售产品的市场。

但这也是一段旅程，一个过程。每个农场都要经过一段时间才能扩大生产。通常情况下，即使规模化采用了新技术，他们也需要一段时间来测试技术，在提高产量之前获得正确的参数。随着他们产量越来越多，他们必须开始寻找潜在的买家来承接这些数量。

因此，仅仅建立基础设施并希望产品能够有效进入市场，并不是一个简单的过程。他们确实需要自己和潜在的利益相关者一起，经历几次迭代和几个步骤。

关于第二个问题，即本地化、去中心化的模式，例如社区农场，能否取代更大规模的农场，实现我们的“30·30“目标? 我认为小型农场确实能为“30·30“的愿景增值并做出贡献。但我认为它们的运营规模不同，如果你与买家交谈，尤其是大型承购商（如超市）交谈，他们想要的是生产的确定性以及品质与数量的一致性。因此，与小型农场相比，大型农场可能更能满足承购商和零售商的需求，因为小型农场的生产批次较小，来自不同地方农场的产品组合也不同，可能更难满足大型零售商的期望。

因此，我们与所有合作伙伴合作，所有这些农场，无论是大型农场还是社区内的小型农场，都能共同为我们的“30·30“愿景添砖加瓦。

ASSISTANCE FOR LOCAL AGRICULTURAL FIRMS TO SUPPORT SINGAPORE’S “30 BY 30” LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION GOAL（1）

9 Ms Poh Li San asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment (a) how will the withdrawal of VertiVegies, a local vertical farm which would have been one of Singapore’s largest indoor vegetable farms boosting local production of greens by 10%, affect Singapore’s 30-by-30 food security goals; and (b) what are the other measures by the Singapore Food Agency to accelerate the growth of local vegetable production which accounts for around 4 per cent of total food consumption in 2022.

10 Miss Cheryl Chan Wei Ling asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment (a) whether the Government will consider plans to support the leveraging or acquiring of requisite intellectual property by local agricultural firms that will support Singapore’s 30-by-30 local food production goal; and (b) what support can be provided to companies with agriculture operational knowledge but without full project development capabilities for scale-up farms.

The Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment (Dr Koh Poh Koon) (for the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment): Mr Speaker, may I have your permission to answer Question Nos 9 and 10 on today’s Order Paper together please?

Mr Speaker: Yes, you do.

Dr Koh Poh Koon: Thank you, Sir. Sir, in our “30 by 30” vision, we aim to build the capability and capacity of the agri-food ecosystem towards productive, resource-efficient and climate-resilient food production. Over the years, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has progressively built the agri-food ecosystem of productive farms, harnessing science and technology to boost production, and preparing the necessary spaces and infrastructure. However, our agri-food sector, like many other sectors, has been facing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic to strong headwinds, such as high inflationary pressures and construction delays, especially during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SFA is working closely with our farms to overcome these challenges through initiatives, such as facilitating regulatory clearances and supporting capability development by co-funding the adoption of technology through the Agri-food Cluster Transformation (ACT) Fund. To date, the $60 million ACT Fund has committed more than $23 million of co-funding to 60 projects. The ACT Fund can support licensing, acquisition or registration of intellectual property for farming systems and engagement of consultancy, sub-contracting, and design and development services, which can help to increase our food production.

Farms also work with partners, with complementary strengths and capabilities, especially when they are thinking of scaling up. They work with partners that can bring skillsets and capabilities that they may not have. Local farms can also partner food researchers to tap on the Singapore Food Story 2.0 Research and Development (R&D) Programme, which promotes R&D in aquaculture, sustainable urban agriculture, future foods and food safety.

The agri-land plot that was originally awarded to VertiVegies has since been retendered to another agri-food player to contribute further towards our “30 by 30” vision.

The success of our farms is also dependent on sufficient demand for our local produce. This is why SFA has been working with the industry to improve demand offtake through measures, including supporting the formation of a supply and demand aggregator for farms and retailers, and promotional events to increase the public’s awareness of our local produce. Consumers can certainly also do their part, by choosing to purchase produce labelled with the red SG Fresh Produce logo, or dining at food establishments under the Farm-to-Table Recognition Programme, which recognises food businesses that feature local produce in their menus.

Mr Speaker: Ms Poh Li San.

Ms Poh Li San (Sembawang): Thank you, Speaker. I thank the Senior Minister of State for his reply. I have one supplementary question. May I know what is the success rate of such large-scale vegetable farms in Singapore so far?

And on the other hand, there are many community farms, or even urban farms, within our residential estates growing very similar vegetables quite successfully. Would a more decentralised, localised and community-based vegetables-growing model be more viable?

Dr Koh Poh Koon: Sir, I thank the Member for her questions. The first question on success rate, I think it is not something that is easy to define, because today when we look at a farm, we look at their production levels, the tonnage, for example, that they can produce. It is not so much on the scale, per se, although having said that, larger farms with economy of scale, can produce a product at a more efficient rate, and therefore, probably has a lot more price competitiveness when they enter the market and, in that sense, we track the farms’ production. So, we define success by the fact that the farm can produce and they are able to find a market to sell their products.

But this also a journey, a process. Every farm would go through a certain period of time before they can scale up their production. Typically, even if they scale in new technology, they will take a while to testbed the technology, get the parameters right before they increase the production in terms of volume. And as they produce in greater quantity, they will have to start looking for potential buyers to off-take those quantities.

So, it is not a straightforward process by just building infrastructure and hoping that the product will be able to enter the market effectively. They do need to go through several iterations and several steps on their own, as well as with potential stakeholders.

On the second question of whether a localised, decentralised model, for example, community farms, can replace the larger-scale farms in reaching our “30 by 30” target. I think the smaller farms do add value and contribute to the “30 by 30” vision, but I think they are operating at a different scale, and if you talk to buyers, especially larger off-takers; like supermarkets, what they want is certainty of production and consistency, in terms of quality and quantity. Therefore, a large-scale farm can probably meet the demands of aggregators and retailers much better than small-scale farms, where they produce in smaller batches, with a different mix from different localised farms and it might be harder to meet the expectations of a larger-scale retailer.

So, we work with all partners and all these farms, whether they are large-scale or smaller ones within a community, can together add to our “30 by 30” vision.

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