Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Farms in Singapore

These vegetable farms can be found in Singapore in the 1960s.
Do you see these farms in Singapore now?




Now, click on the link below and watch the clip on a vegetable farm found in modern Singapore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjc-wzfmAe8

Compare the farms.
a)What are the differences you can observe between the old farm and the hydoponic farm?
b) Why do you think we do not have many farms in Singapore now?

Read more on Farming in Singapore by clicking on the useful website link on the left tab.
Leave your answers as a comment below.


43 comments:

  1. They very different.It is much smaller and there are that much vegetables as last time

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  2. It is much smaller and there less vegetables than last time

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  3. each farm produces more vegetablesthan last time

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    1. there are more people and building

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  4. We do not have have enough space as there are many buildings around

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  5. each farms produces more vegetables than last time

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  6. The hydoponic farm is more high tech than the old ones.

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  7. (a)It is much smaller than the older farm and it is much tiring to work in a older farm
    than a hydoponic farm.
    (b)Singapore is a small and there is more people now that the past.

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  8. a) The vegetables at the hydoponic were more fresh than the olden days.

    b) We do not have much space to build farms.

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  9. (a)A hydroponic farm uses morden method of growing plants in water than in soil and a old farm uses soil and tools.
    (b)We have lots of people in Singapore,so builders need to build more house than farms

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  11. a)Hydroponics farms produce food of better quality.

    b)Singapore is a very small county.

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  12. (a)Singapore has lesser farm than last time.

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  13. a]The hydoponic farm uses modern tools ulike the old farm.

    b]Singapore's population is increasing,so there are lesser farms.

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  14. (a)the farms are smaller now
    (b)the farms use machines now

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  15. a)It is more smaller.
    b)Singapore is a very small country.

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  16. (a)The old farms are larger than the farms now.
    (b)Now we have less space to biuld farms so we do not have so many farms.

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  17. a)it is much smaller.
    b)now there are more flats.

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  18. a)the are more vegetables in the old farm unlike the modern farm

    b)Singapore do not have enough space

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  19. (a)The old farm is bigger than the hidoponic farm.
    (b)We uses the space for buildings and singapore is small.

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  20. a) It is much more different. It is smaller and there are much more vegetables than last time.

    b) It is because Singapore is very small and there are many buildings here.

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  21. a)The diffences between the old farm and the hypodonic is that the hypodonic farm needs lesser space.
    b)there is more people in Singapore so they need to build more houses.

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  22. [a]Hydroponic farms produces more food.
    [b] The old farms produces less food.

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  23. (a)The old farm is larger than the hydoponic farm and is very different.
    (b)It was because there are too many buildings.

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  24. a)The difference are the old farm are bigger and the hydoponic farm are bigger.b)I think there are not many farm in Singapore because Singapore is small.

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  25. a)The differences is that the old farm produce more vegatable than. now b)I think thatwe do not have many places as before.

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  26. a)They are different from each other because the old farm is bigger. b)I think there is lesser farm becuase there are more people than farm

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  27. (b)Farm produce better food now.

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  28. a)the diffences is the old farm is much bigger than the hydoponic farm.
    b)there are more people in singapore and they need more building to stay.

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  29. (a) The old farms are bigger than the hydoponic farms.

    (b) Singapore is a very small country and does not have enough space for farms.

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  30. Singapore is very small so we do not have many farms now.

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  31. (a) They carry bukets to water the plants and the Old farm is bigger than the

    Hydroponics farm.

    (b)I think we do not have many farms in Singapore now because we have less land and

    more housing estates.

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  32. a)the hydrponic farm is more high-tech than other farms
    b)because we do not have enough space and land

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  33. (a) I feel that the old farm and the hydoponic farm is very different
    The old farm is bigger than the hydoponic farm.

    (b) I think there are not many farms in Singapore now because Singapore is very small

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  34. (a)The differences are~the hydoponic farm can produce more food than last time.
    ~the factories are newer than last time.

    (b)I think because there is more people and Singapore is very small country.

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  35. a)They make more food than the old farms.

    (b)I think it is because the workers build more buildings now.

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  37. It is much smaller and there are less vegetables than last time.

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  38. 1) The hydoponic farm vegetables are fresher than the old farm. Also, the hydroponic farm uses water to grow vegetables while the farm vegetaables uses soil.

    2)It is because there are many buildings around us.

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