New coffee table book features Kranji countryside’s charm, history, farms and people
Farmland accounts for about 1% of Singapore’s land. Nearly 600 hectares have been allocated to more than 200 farms – many of them in Cranty – producing food and non-food.
The agricultural sector, though small in scale, plays a strategic role in national food security and supplies about 10 per cent of food.
“We want to show Singaporeans and tourists that many aspects of Cranjee, Singapore is small, but it has its own farm; we want our country gems can be preserved.” “.
Earlier this year, the government told Lin Chikang and Crankee’s 62 farms that they had to move out by the end of 2019 to make room for the Defense Department’s new training ground.
The deadline was initially June, but the Agriculture Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) postponed a two-and-a-half year period to give farmers more transit time.
Affected farmers will be able to tender new farmland early next year, but details of the location and size of the new plots are yet to be announced. The first batch of land sales will be launched next year, AVA said last month.
KCA president Kenny Eng said the book is a photographic journey through Kranji, past and present, with its rich heritage and diversity. “The countryside is a unique ecosystem that is mostly family-run farms … with nature reserves, ambitious cemeteries and our defense forces.” There is not a single country in the world that is so small but so rich, This book will be the only consolidated will, if it is removed, we have.
Farmland accounts for about 1% of Singapore’s land. Nearly 600 hectares have been allocated to more than 200 farms – many of them in Cranty – producing food and non-food.
The agricultural sector, though small in scale, plays a strategic role in national food security and supplies about 10 per cent of food.
“We want to show Singaporeans and tourists that many aspects of Cranjee, Singapore is small, but it has its own farm; we want our country gems can be preserved.” “.
Earlier this year, the government told Lin Chikang and Crankee’s 62 farms that they had to move out by the end of 2019 to make room for the Defense Department’s new training ground.
The deadline was initially June, but the Agriculture Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) postponed a two-and-a-half year period to give farmers more transit time.
Affected farmers will be able to tender new farmland early next year, but details of the location and size of the new plots are yet to be announced. The first batch of land sales will be launched next year, AVA said last month.
KCA president Kenny Eng said the book is a photographic journey through Kranji, past and present, with its rich heritage and diversity. “The countryside is a unique ecosystem that is mostly family-run farms … with nature reserves, ambitious cemeteries and our defense forces.” There is not a single country in the world that is so small but so rich, This book will be the only consolidated will, if it is removed, we have.
The Kranji Countryside – Soul Of Singapore is priced at $30 and can be bought at Bollywood Veggies, Jurong Frog Farm, Hay Dairies, Nyee Phoe Gardenasia and at Uncle William’s shop at Farmart.@sph.com.sg>
This article was first published on Dec 28, 2016.
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