Singrow, a Singapore-based agri-genomics firm that has developed a proprietary genomics technology platform, has recently announced its partnerships with franchise farms in Malaysia and Thailand, TreeGrow Sdn Bhd and PREINO Co., Ltd, marking a significant progress in its global expansion plans.
The signing of the 2 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) took place at the official opening of Singrow’s new farm at the Singapore Science Park, one of the most prestigious addresses for R&D in Asia. The new farm will also serve as its R&D hub furthering on its recent success of Singrow Strawberries, the world’s first climate-resilient strawberries. The new hub will focus on developing other novel crop varieties through the same revolutionary technology to combat the adverse effects of climate change on farming worldwide.
Dr Bao Shengjie, Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at Singrow said, “The Singrow Farm represents our unwavering commitment to innovation and sustainability in agriculture, and we are thrilled to continue our work in developing climate-resilient and other novel crops that can withstand the agricultural challenges of our present environment. Furthermore, we are excited to establish these agreements with our partners from Malaysia and Thailand and are on course to expand Singrow’s presence in China as well. Our collaboration with these like-minded partners will make our technology and crop varieties available to more farmers and growers in the region, and help us realise our vision of transforming the agricultural industry faster. These mark the first few steps, as we scale the commercialisation of our unique Singrow crop varieties, and we look forward to achieving global success together with our eco-system partners.”
Singrow will also tap on ground-breaking technologies such as artificial intelligence in its agricultural innovation solutions. One example is the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) scanner that was jointly developed with Scent Analytics, a group of researchers from National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Engineering. This will be integrated into SyncGrow, a genomics-based farming protocol platform by Singrow that leverages existing genomics data and real-time gathering of plant health information to optimise the growth environment for crops. Designed to enable farmers to accurately detect plants’ health status, the scanner uses advanced technology to measure plants’ VOC emissions and is a non-invasive method of assessing plant health and nutritional status which informs farmers on the appropriate plant health intervention before any illness can be visually detected.
The MoUs with partner farms in Malaysia and Thailand will enable Singrow to increase production volume of its climate-resilient strawberry variety by at least a hundred-fold, bringing climate-resilient crops to more countries while helping farmers improve their livelihoods through a more robust crop yield.
Singrow’s genome technology is set to transform the US$12 trillion agriculture industry, as it scales and apply the same innovative technology to other crop varieties that forms a huge part of our global consumption.
