By December 2023, 70 farms in Lim Chu Kang will have to move out of their current farmland to make way for the development of military training grounds. On The Red Dot follows the stories of three farms affected by this move.
After close to three decades of being the only licensed frog breeding farm in Singapore, Jurong Frog Farm makes a difficult decision to close its gates for good. What will they leave behind? Hay Dairies prepares for the big move to their new farm site in Neo Tiew Crescent. But with more than 1000 goats and an incoming birthing season for the goats, will they be able to shift over to their new site in time? After losing more than 95% of land space when it moved to its current site to make way for the expansion of Tengah Air Base, Quan Fa Organic Farm struggles to meet its output.
So, what lies ahead for these farmers? Will they need to bid farewell to traditional farming in Singapore?
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Who is the Thanos?
Anyway, 70 farms have been moved out of the current farmland but they have been taken over by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). MINDEF only took the chunk of space meant for the expansion of Tengah Airbase, with the hoardings being placed (similar to CapitaMalls Asia).
Mre saf camps than hospitals
What happened to ensuring food security? This is political bullshit at its highest order.
Look at China, I know they have priorities land for agriculture, animal and seafood farming. They have even reclaim deserts and costal land for this purpose: tilapia fish farm in deserts and planting sea water rice. Singapore has small land area approximately seven hundred plus kilometers. Sadly to say allocation of agricultural or farming lands is less than one percent. Agricultural or farming needs to be prioritized for a minimal food security self dependency. Try use reclaimed lands for housing, commercial or even military defense purposes Fertile natural land is scarce and should be properly plan for eco friendly purposes for sustainability to the well being of the nation and the future generations.
We should annex JB more land
Speaking of self sustaining on food source. And here we are having the officials destroying years of hardwork and fruitation by this decision… Shake head really…
Sad…apart of old Singapore history gone.
What happens to covid 19 and food security issues, it looks like they are paying lip service to past policy, as for army training the advancement in robotics is a new trend and will affect the way military is conducted in the future?
Very sad watching this programme, especially Mr Wan's frog farm last journey 😢. Hope Mr Wan doesn't give up, source for other farming venue in JB, start all over again. I m sure you can make it with your vast experience.
Useless defense spending on useless training ground for a useless army.
Losing our heritage for such useless purpose
Love this! Is this the first ep in the Losing Landmarks series? was hoping it would be hashtagged, so easier to find other eps.
Sengkang/Punggol used to have parcels of grass land for families to relax, fly kites etc.. and also the reservoir park with many trees for ppl to jog and cycle. Now all gone with endless condos and flats being built and MORE AND MORE PPL squeezed into the area. Now becoming concrete jungle. With the population now touching 6million, good luck to everyone when it reaches 6.9million as dictated by the white paper.
Awesome documentary, at least we have this for our future generations to see.
If they run out of land they got to go overseas……………Singapore eh….sigh….they need to preserve farmers here too.
Funny how Singapore flip flops on policies. One minute they want us to protect our old way of life for our future generations, then tear it all down to build an army camp! Once lost we ain't getting it back. 😭
The elite cannot appreciate the feelings of the ordinary citizens …what really constitutes happiness…
Money should have been spent to let the people feel the link to nature …not just nature but how the lives of people are supported by these farmers …
Only when things are lost then the regrets will come …many failed policies are traced to such arrogance…the arrogance of the elite …the need to have the best talents from the world …not realising that the foundation of unity ,happiness and Prosperity come from the loyalty and love of ordinary citizens to see the nation succeed.
This country is only obsessed with building flats and condos
i dont see the purpose of replacing farm land into military? food is more important in singapore than military camp
As is with almost all the rest of Southeast Asia. In this case, the goats and the frogs are not native, whereas, in my country, areas with endemic and endangered species are eradicated in the name of progress and development. I think there'll be a time when the roads are the only public spaces left.
Singapore is in danger of becoming a country with no history.
Papa Anak Party: What's wrong with collecting more money! haha