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Singapore Continues to Strengthen its Food Supply Resilience
04 Mar 2026
Singapore imports more than 90% of our food. Our food importers have leveraged Singapore’s connectivity and global trade to import from various sources.
2 This dependence on food imports makes us vulnerable to external shocks and supply chain disruptions, which could arise from factors such as climate change, disease outbreaks, and geopolitical tensions. Hence, Singapore needs to secure a supply of safe food in both peacetime and crises.
3 Our Singapore Food Story 2, announced in November 2025, aims to bring about overall food resilience, protecting us against uncertainty in food supply and ensuring we have a reasonable sense of normalcy in times of disruption. The four pillars of our Singapore Food Story 2 (Diversify Imports, Grow Local, Stockpile, Global Partnerships) and our food safety system work in concert to ensure a resilient and safe food supply for Singapore.
MORE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FARMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY AND BUILD CAPACITY AND CAPABILITY
Agri-Food Cluster Transformation (ACT) Fund 2
4 The Agri-Food Cluster Transformation (ACT) Fund, first introduced in April 2021, provides co-funding for local farms to adopt farming technologies and upgrade their capabilities. It supports our local farmers to be more productive, resilient to climate change, and resource efficient.
5 The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) regularly reviews the ACT Fund, taking into account feedback from farms, to better address their diverse and emerging needs. This has included enhancing coverage by including expenses such as marketing and branding and expanding the funding scope to cover standalone pre- and post-harvest production facilities.
5 The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) regularly reviews the ACT Fund, taking into account feedback from farms, to better address their diverse and emerging needs. This has included enhancing coverage by including expenses such as marketing and branding and expanding the funding scope to cover standalone pre- and post-harvest production facilities.
6 SFA will extend the ACT Fund (now known as ACT Fund 2) with a new tranche of funding of $70M over 5 years to continue to provide co-funding support for farms to increase their capacity and capability for local production.
7 SFA will introduce a new funding component on Industry Partnerships for Capability Transformation Grant, to support partnerships between farms and ecosystem players that catalyse the development and deployment of industry-wide solutions. These partnerships include enabling shared resources and optimising supply chains. This new funding component is introduced in response to feedback from the industry on the need for collaborative approaches to tackle common challenges, such as limited economies of scale and supply chain inefficiencies.
8 April 2026. More information on the application process will be provided soon.
Support For Farms to Build Capacity
9 SFA will also further support farmers in adopting technologies to upgrade aquaculture farms through deploying technology demonstration projects that showcase practical, cost-effective pathways to higher productivity and more consistent output. While some technologies may perform well overseas, they may not be suitable in our small-scale, tropical, marine aquaculture farming environment, and farms may be understandably cautious about adopting them first. Through these demonstration projects, SFA will work with farms and technology providers to test these solutions in
real operating conditions, so that their technical performance and operational suitability can be assessed before farms commit significant investment. SFA will continue to support farms to adopt successfully demonstrated technologies via the ACT Fund 2.
STRENGTHEN SUPPLY RESILIENCE OF AGRI-INPUTS
Update on National Broodstock Centre (NBC) and Hatchery Development and Recognition Programme (HDRP)
10 In 2024, SFA established the National Broodstock Centre (NBC) and Hatchery Development and Recognition Programme (HDRP) to increase the local supply of high-quality eggs and fingerlings for Asian Seabass and Marine Tilapia. As of January 2026, five local hatcheries have obtained recognition under the HDRP which enabled them to receive high-quality eggs from the NBC and raise them to produce better fingerlings for the industry.
11 Currently, farms source the majority of their fry and fingerlings from overseas, with less consistent quality. In addition, imported fry and fingerlings undergo long transport stress which can result in lower survival rates. Higher quality fry and fingerlings from the NBC and HDRP allows grow-out farms to have shorter time-to- market and reduce feed costs, hence lowering overall production risks and operating costs.
12 In 2026, we are expanding our national breeding programme to include Red Snapper. We will also work with the industry to increase the supply of Whiteleg Shrimp larvae and Grouper fingerlings. For example, we will facilitate partnerships between local hatcheries and overseas breeders to bring in selected parent stock, breed them here, and supply farms with reliable post-larvae/fingerlings.
Integrated Hatchery Support Programme
13 SFA will be introducing a new Integrated Hatchery Support Programme (IHSP) to help local hatcheries adopt specialised feeds and quality vaccines that will maximise the growth potential of the high-quality fry or fingerlings supplied under the NBC and HDRP. Demonstration trials will be conducted to show the effectiveness of the use of high-quality and specialised early feeds and targeted vaccination protocols. This aims to build confidence and encourage farmers to make greater investments in quality inputs.
14 Together, these initiatives reinforce our aquaculture value chain. The initiatives will improve the quality of fry and fingerlings that local farms can access to increase yields, strengthen resilience, and improve competitiveness.
ENHANCE LOCAL PRODUCE OFFTAKE
Increasing Demand Offtake of Local Production
15 Demand offtake is a key driver of success for local production. Commercial viability of farms depends on sufficient and sustained demand. Over the years, SFA has made progress on farm collaborations, local produce branding and raising awareness and support among consumers.
16 In 2023, SFA worked with the Singapore Agro-Food Enterprises Federation (SAFEF) to establish it as an industry-level supply and demand aggregator that connects farmers, traders, and food processing companies through commercial contracts to better align market demand with supply. In 2026, SAFEF will expand the product selection in aggregated brands, such as the expansion of SG Farmers’ Market® brand to include more vegetable varieties like salads, whole lettuces, and mushrooms, and manufactured products like sauces and canned items. SAFEF will also introduce new The Straits Fish® marine tilapia ready-to-eat (RTE) products in collaboration with TheSeafoodCompany. SAFEF will partner more F&B players to integrate SG Farmers' Market® product range in their menus.
17 To further boost demand offtake, SFA has also been onboarding more businesses to the Farm-to-Table Recognition Programme (FTTRP). The FTTRP was launched to recognise food businesses in the hotel, restaurant, and catering sector that procure at least 15% of locally farmed produce in one of the six food categories of hen shell eggs, leafy vegetables, beansprouts, fish, mushroom, and quail eggs. As of December 2025, 119 food businesses have onboarded to the FTTRP, and in 2025 alone, procured a total of 67 tonnes of leafy vegetables, 28 tonnes of fish, and 46
million pieces of hen shell eggs.
STRENGTHEN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
Risk monitoring and food supply visibility tool
18 SFA will also continue to enhance its monitoring of global food supply chain risks to alert industry stakeholders about potential disruptive events and work with them to assess the potential impact. This allows the industry to take proactive measures to ensure supply continuity. For example, in 2025, SFA worked with PSA- BDP, a global supply chain, logistics, and transportation solutions provider, to develop a new risk monitoring and food supply visibility tool which provides early warning of potential disruptive events and better food supply chain visibility.
19 SFA will also enhance its Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction Model to predict environmental events more accurately, through integrating data such as chlorophyll-a, dissolved oxygen, and temperature levels collected by the SFA’s Aquaculture Sensing Network. This will provide more accurate assessments of potential algal bloom risk and enable us to alert farmers early so that timely mitigation measures such as aeration or emergency harvests can be performed to minimise stock losses.
