Smart farms, shared tables: South Korea and Singapore team up on the future of food

In Singapore on 30 October, on the sidelines of the ASEAN+3 agriculture ministers' meeting, South Korea and Singapore signed an agreement to cooperate on smart farming — farms that use sensors, automation and data to grow more with less — including a joint committee, technology exchange and partnerships between their companies. Deputy Minister Kim Jong-gu also visited the world's tallest indoor vertical farm to study its AI-guided growing. The food-security thread runs deep: South Korea has contributed 72% of the 780,000 tons of rice in the region's shared emergency reserve since 2013, and will add 5,900 tons this year.

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