Singapore: Aquaponics without the lettuce
It has come up with a vertical farm system that needs much less space to house than traditional farms.
The Temasek Holdings-owned firm unveiled its Floating Pond concept on Monday (Sept 4), developed over the last four years with Singapore fish farm Apollo Aquaculture Group.
Already in operation is a three-storey prototype at Apollo Aquaculture Group's farm in Lim Chu Kang which comes with six ponds - two on each level. Each pond is 135 sq m and can hold about 22,000 fish fry.
Surbana plans to improve the prototype by introducing self-sustainable features. For example, the system will have solar panels to harness energy from the sun, and rain water collected and wastewater from fish tanks are purified to be reused while leftover nutrients from the purification process is used as fish feed.
Read more at The Straits Times