Ensuring Resilience in Food Supply
AVA strives to provide Singapore with an adequate and stable supply of food. They achieve this by diversifying the sources of supply to Singapore through efforts in the following areas :
- Approving new sources for importation of food by the private sector
- Participating in trade missions to seek out new sources
- Collaborating with the private sector, such as through AVA's agri-food Business Clusters in food sourcing
AVA's food diversification strategy allows Singapore to have resilience in supply. It gives AVA an increased flexibility and adaptability when supply from a particular source falls short. Coupled with Singapore's open market, source diversification has helped to maintain stability in the prices of the food.
Singapore's local farms also provide a small measure of our vegetables, fish and egg supply. AVA helps local farms to optimise their production by assisting them to employ intensive farming systems and safe food production practices.
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