Singapore’s Singrow blooms ambitions to build agricultural powerhouse in Thailand with new partnership

The firm has entered the next phase of expansion with a new indoor vertical farm at Singapore’s Science Park, which will double up as its R&D hub.

In addition, Singrow has signed MOUs with Malaysian company TreeGrow Sdn Bhd and Thai firm PREINO Co., Ltd to bring its proprietary genomics technology and crop innovations​ to more countries.

Speaking to FoodNavigator-Asia ​at the farm’s opening event, Dr Bao Shengjie, CEO and Chief Scientist at Singrow, said: “PREINO owns a 56 sq km plot of land in southern Thailand, which our technology and know-how can help co-develop it into an agricultural zone or food bank. Our vision is to use it as the base to supply to other markets in future.”​

The franchise farms in Malaysia and Thailand will enable Singrow to increase production volume of its strawberry variety by at least a hundredfold. This would, in turn, expand sales channels…