Author: vicplas

Anyone who has costed an indoor grow build over the past few years will have typed the phrase "30 by 30" into a proposal at some point. That target has now been retired, and the replacement changes both the numbers and the crops they attach to. For growers part way through planning a facility, the shift deserves a proper read, because it alters which produce categories carry policy weight and how far out the horizon now sits. The questions on the ground have not changed much. A hydroponic system still has to move water evenly, drain down cleanly between crop cycles...

The first serious downpour of the wet season tends to find every shortcut taken during the dry months. A gully that was never quite cleared backs up across a car park, a temporary site discharge overwhelms a channel that was sized for something else, and a length of drain laid to a lazy fall finally shows why fall was specified in the first place. None of it is a surprise to the people who saw it coming. September is a good month to work through this, because the calendar gives a clear run before conditions get difficult. Singapore's wettest stretch is...