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FoodAwards Supply & AccoladesResilience 3 Contents Awards and Accolades 04 12 16 18 Chairman’s Board of Organisational Corporate Statement Directors / Chart Governance Leadership Team Singapore Quality Class (STAR) ASEAN Reference Laboratory re-certifed in December 2016 for Environmental Contaminants 20 38 designation received by Veterinary Public People Developer Health Laboratory since 2014 Food Supply Food Resilience Safety re-certifed in December 2016 Minister’s Award (Team) 2018 Innovation Class received from the Ministry of National 54 70 76 re-certifed in December 2016 Development for the Management And Coordination of Storm Recovery Eforts for Animal Plant Health International Farms in Murai Health, Relations ISO/IEC 17025 SAC-SINGLAS Welfare & Management Accreditation received by: Municipal Services Awards received from the Municipal Services 82 92 • Veterinary Public Health Laboratory Ofce for: since 2000, with 9 new tests accredited Organisational Performance in FY 2018 • Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage Eforts in Excellence Indicators • Animal Health Laboratory since January Sembawang 2005, with 2 new tests accredited in • Resolution of Dakota Crescent Stray FY 2018 Dog Sighting Incidents • Plant Health Laboratory since June 2005 • Management of Pollution Incident at Chicken Farm Vision (ExCITe) • Resolution of Segar Road Monkey Values World Organisation for Animal Safe food, healthy animals and Excellence: Incident Health (OIE) Collaborating • Collaboration with Ai Tong School to plants for Singapore; trusted and • We strive to be the best in all that we do. Centre for Food Safety Educate Residents on ‘No Feeding of respected globally. • We seek lifelong learning and continuous designation received by Veterinary Public Pigeons’ innovation. Health Centre since May 2014 • Public Awareness Eforts against Pigeon Care: Feeding Mission • We value and nurture our staf. • Video Analytics Algorithm for • We care for the community and the environment. ASEAN Reference Laboratory Automatic Pigeon Detection • Ensure a resilient supply of safe food; for Pesticide Residues • Ensure the health and safeguard the Integrity: designation received by Veterinary Public welfare of animals; • We serve with professionalism. Health Laboratory since 2004 Ong Teng Cheong Labour • Safeguard the health of plants; • We treat our customers fairly and honestly. Leadership Institute Workplace • Facilitate agri-trade; and Teamwork: Partnership Award (Platinum) • Nurture and inspire staf to be the received jointly with AUSBE-AVA best we can be! • We trust and respect each other. • We work as a team and partner our stakeholders to achieve our goals. 4 Annual Report 2018/19 FoodChairman’s Supply Resilience Message 5 Chairman’s Food Security Message Going forward, we face major challenges in further evaluated on price in the second stage. safeguarding our food supply. By 2050, the The outcome was good, as we saw successful world population is expected to grow by 30% tenderers submitting advanced farming to reach nearly 10 billion. But natural resources systems that should lead to higher productivity such as water and arable land are becoming in manpower and land usage. increasingly scarce. These trends will increase pressure on food supply. Climate change In urban farming, creative use of space is “Sharpening and geopolitical developments will add to important. These spaces include underutilised this pressure. A case in point was Malaysia’s rooftops and vacant state buildings. Producing AVA’s eforts announcement in December 2018 that it was food where people live will be a trend as the in dealing with considering limiting exports of eggs and a few world population becomes more urbanised. types of seafood. Putting Singapore’s underutilised urban spaces these forces and to good use presents opportunities for food To improve our food supply resilience, we production and test-bedding of innovative enhancing our facilitate our importers to open up new food technologies for urban farming. It also serves food security supply sources. AVA arranged business to raise community awareness and support for matching and networking sessions for our local produce. Through the collaborative eforts situation was traders to network with food exporters from of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Early Thailand, Vietnam, and Ukraine for food Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), the rightfully one of products such as eggs, fruit, vegetables, and Ministry of Health (MOH), and AVA, the former poultry. In November 2018, AVA and Enterprise Henderson Secondary School will be housing the Board’s early Singapore (ESG) led a seafood sourcing mission the frst-ever integrated space for childcare, priorities.” to Andhra Pradesh, India. AVA also made trips healthcare and urban farming, to cater to the to several countries such as Ukraine, Spain, needs of the community living in the area. Japan, Thailand, Brunei, and the Philippines to inspect their national regulatory systems, and meat and egg processing establishments. Last year alone, AVA approved 12 new farms in Australia, Thailand and Ukraine that can export or FY 2018, I am happy to report that AVA made eggs to Singapore. big strides in fulflling its mission of ensuring food security and safety, safeguarding animal and Local production remains an important prong plant health, and enhancing animal management in our food security strategy. To this end, AVA Fand welfare. Our food supply is now more secure due to ensures that land is available in the long term our eforts to further diversify our food sources and grow to support our local food production goals. In our local agri-food sector. Singapore was clear of animal FY 2018, we conducted two land sales exercises diseases and plant pests that may disrupt food production, and awarded a total of 13 plots of farm land on and impact public health and trade. Credit goes to our food 20-year leases. In June 2018, for the frst time, safety team, who maintained round-the-clock vigilance. agriculture land parcels were put out to tender Considerable eforts were put in to build a culture of using the ‘Concept and Price’ tender method, responsible pet ownership and to forge close partnership where the concept was assessed in the frst with stakeholders on animal management issues, but we stage based on the strength of the proposal are still some distance away from having a nationwide using criteria such as production capability, culture of responsible pet ownership. Let me now highlight production track record, and innovation. our signifcant achievements in FY 2018. Tenderers who passed the frst stage were 6 Annual Report 2018/19 FoodChairman’s Supply Resilience Message 7 By growing a larger and more competitive In July 2018, AVA increased its participation food and agri-tech sector, Singapore will at the 6th World Cities Summit (WCS). In have an opportunity to be a leader in urban addition to our presence at the Singapore agriculture and aquaculture technology. The Government Pavilion where two local food production model developed here could technology solutions providers showcased potentially be exported to other cities in their technologies that were contributing the region. A competitive food cluster could to the vibrancy of our growing eco-system, become another engine of economic growth AVA hosted a thematic forum “Building for Singapore. We are working with economic and Growing a Thriving Urban Food Eco- agencies to develop an Agri-Food Innovation system”, which attracted a good turnout Park (AFIP) in Sungei Kadut, which will bring of about 200 people. The session brought together hi-tech farming and R&D activities, together planners and experts in the feld including indoor plant factories, insect farms, of cluster development and agri-technology and animal feed production facilities. innovation to discuss and provide insights on urban food solutions and their impact on To nurture a competitive food cluster with the planning of cities. limited land in Singapore for farming, we will need to intensify our research, enterprise, Together with ESG, AVA participated and collaboration eforts. AVA worked with in TechInnovation 2018 in September A*STAR to put up an R&D programme for the 2018 to showcase our technology and Singapore Food Story, covering research areas collaboration partners in the local urban in sustainable urban food production, future agri-tech industry. Alongside the exhibition foods, and food safety science and innovation. pavilion, participants benefted from a Working closely with local industry partners is and-Learn’ programme (ELP) for the agriculture In early 2019, $144 million from the Research, conference session featuring presentations key to our efort to promote the growth of the sector. This ELP, leading to the Part-time Innovation and Enterprise 2020 (RIE2020) was and panel discussions on the latest trends, local food sector. To this end, AVA works closely Diploma in Applied Science in Urban Agricultural allocated to support the R&D programme. developments, and opportunities in the with the Singapore Agro-Food Enterprises Technology, was launched in January 2019. It urban agri-tech sector. Federation (SAFEF). In FY 2018, AVA and SAFEF emplaces Institute of Technical Education (ITE) co-organised fve SG Farmers’ Market events, graduates into the industry, and equips them For the frst time, in October 2018, AVA co- where our farmers showcased their locally with the knowledge and skills to become agri- organised the 5th International Rice Congress grown vegetables, fsh,