{"id":21269,"date":"2025-03-18T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:25:51","slug":"farmzstory-singapore-urban-farming-is-going-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/industries\/refrigeration-ventilation\/farmzstory-singapore-urban-farming-is-going-to-school_21269\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Farming is going to school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s an ambi\u00adtious goal: Singa\u00adpore wants to become more inde\u00adpen\u00addent from food imports and produce around 30 percent of its own food require\u00adments itself and in a sustain\u00adable way by 2030. With its modern green\u00adhouses, FarmzS\u00adtory is making a big contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to \u201c30 by 30\u201d by bringing farming from the fields into the city. After all, agri\u00adcul\u00adtural areas are in short supply in Singa\u00adpore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agri\u00adcul\u00adtural areas are in short supply in Singa\u00adpore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The team led by Ng Ah Ban is also respon\u00adsible for taking Urban Farming to schools. Liter\u00adally. FarmzS\u00adtory has already equipped 16 primary schools, high schools and junior colleges with a total of 28 green\u00adhouses. On these facil\u00adi\u00adties span\u00adning 15 square meters each, pupils can sow, fertilize and harvest what the earth provides \u2013 partic\u00adu\u00adlarly vegeta\u00adbles such as Chinese broc\u00adcoli (Kai Lan) and rocket salad (Pak Choi), as well as Nai Bai and Kang Kong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This not only helps the young vegetable growers to learn how farming can work in densely popu\u00adlated cities. They also produce valu\u00adable food for their own consump\u00adtion and the local commu\u00adnity. To help ensure that the vegetable growing is a success, state-of-the-art tech\u00adnology is used in the green\u00adhouses. Including sensors to measure the temper\u00ada\u00adture, humidity and nutri\u00adents in the ground. The green\u00adhouses also get their power from inte\u00adgrated solar systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State-of-the-art tech\u00adnology, including sensors and inte\u00adgrated solar systems, ensures optimum growing condi\u00adtions and effi\u00adcient plant produc\u00adtion in the green\u00adhouses. ( Images | ebm-papst)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Adequate air exchange is guar\u00adan\u00adteed by effi\u00adcient axial fans from ebm-papst. They can be controlled contin\u00adu\u00adously according to demand thanks to the installed EC motors and regu\u00adlate the oxygen content and temper\u00ada\u00adture in the green\u00adhouse by extracting the old air and replacing it with unused fresh air with high oxygen concen\u00adtra\u00adtion. This isn\u2019t just great for the seedlings and young plants. It also create a much more pleasant work envi\u00adron\u00adment for the future urban farmers in the hot Singa\u00adpore climate. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The effi\u00adcient axial fans from ebm-papst ensure optimum air exchange and regu\u00adlate the oxygen content and temper\u00ada\u00adture in the green\u00adhouse at FarmzS\u00adtory in Singa\u00adpore. (Image | ebm-papst)<\/p><\/div>\n

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EC motor tech\u00adnology enables infi\u00adnitely vari\u00adable control of the axial fans \u2013 ideal for plants and employees in trop\u00adical Singa\u00adpore. (Image | ebm-papst)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Future tech\u00adnology: Fans as part of the IoT and cloud system in Lim Chu Kang\u2019s model green\u00adhouse. (Image | ebm-papst)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

But vegetable growing can be improved even more. At least that\u2019s what FarmzS\u00adtory believes with the further devel\u00adop\u00adment of its green\u00adhouses. The level of tech\u00adnology in the process will be increased in the future. The company is already working on addi\u00adtional features such as IoT and Cloud tech\u00adnology in a model green\u00adhouse in Lim Chu Kang \u2013 all with the goal of making urban farming more acces\u00adsible and training a wealth of young talent in sustain\u00adable agri\u00adcul\u00adture and food produc\u00adtion. Singa\u00adpore fervently hopes that the coming gener\u00ada\u00adtions will help secure the food supply for the country with knowl\u00adedge, prac\u00adtical expe\u00adri\u00adence and envi\u00adron\u00admental aware\u00adness and work towards the \u201c30 by 30\u201d goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an ambi\u00adtious goal: Singa\u00adpore wants to become more inde\u00adpen\u00addent from food imports and produce around 30 percent of its own food require\u00adments itself and in a sustain\u00adable way by 2030. With its modern green\u00adhouses, FarmzS\u00adtory is making a big contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to \u201c30 by 30\u201d by bringing farming from the fields into the city. After [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans","category-refrigeration-ventilation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21336,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}