China has set a goal for higher grain yields by 2030 – a necessity only likely to grow more acute as its stock of arable land has stagnated and the global food market has become more volatile.
There is a meme spreading around the internet in Singapore : A photo of a plate of rice accompanied by another lump of rice shaped to resemble a chicken drumstick. Thanks to Malaysia’s export ban on fresh chicken, the wealthy city state can only buy frozen chicken now. Chicken from Malaysia makes up about one-third of Singapore’s total poultry imports,.
Asia has been slammed by a wave of protectionism in recent months, with countries enacting food export restrictions on items from palm oil to wheat, sugar and chicken. The disruptions have sent already inflated food prices soaring, with Singapore's food price increase in April hitting levels not seen since March 2009 and Malaysians saying the once affordable everyday chicken is.
The Lunar New Year is typically a festival of abundance and excess. But three years into the pandemic, food prices have risen across the globe thanks to a confluence of pandemic-induced supply chain constraints, bad weather that decimated crops and surging energy prices have also affected the cost of fertilisers. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s food price index reached.
Lab-grown meat to make historic debut in Singapore By PRIME SARMIENTO in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-19 08:18
Singapore s decision to allow the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat will prove a milestone in helping both the land-scarce country and others to sustain food security and help counter climate change, analysts said. An employee of Eat Just looks at grilled fillet made from lab-grown cultured chicken developed by the company. [EAT JUST/REUTERS]
As the first country to approve the manufacture of cell-cultured meat, Singapore can serve as a role model to other countries keen to boost food production using this technology.