Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Reclaimed Land

Land Reclaimation, usually known as reclaimation, is the process to create new land  from sea or riverbeds. The land reclaimed is known as reclaimation ground or landfill. - wiki

We need land in order to produce food for the people in Singapore,due to scarce land,Singapore used the method of Reclaiming land to "Create'' more space for more things. One of which is farming.

Places in Singapore that is on reclaimed land are:

Pulau Tekong
East Coast Park
Jurong

choosing a location to site farming activities

When we choose a farming location we must be able to manage it and see if there is enough space to farm we also need to spend money on the equipment and the people we need to hire to farm the place. The location also have to have favorable weather condition
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what is wet rice cultivation like ?


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location for farming map .

our location for farming

places near the seas or even places off singapore like pulau ubin etc .as singapore is always building and developing houses , companys etc . its doesnt have much land to spare for doing wet rice cultivaion so we've decied to go to places that has water supply and enough sunlight for the growing of crops .
our method the wet rice cultivation , needing water and sunlight and manpower is enought to work well . using places near the seas , or off singapore can get us enough water supply . and is hot and wet reigion also .
water supply , once we have flooded land , it doesnt requires water . as there will be enough water when its flooded or during heavy rain . process our product we will also build a factory that is nearer to our farming location so that we can process the rice easily , fertilisers , we planned to get direct supply from other suppliers so that there would not be a problem .
wet rice cultivation requires , physical labour , we would need help from people to plant the crops ,and fertilise it and also harvest it when it grows.

what is the method of agriculture that we've chosen ?

we've chosen wet rice cultivation . wet rice cultivation requires a land flooded with water , and is able to have sunlight and heavy rain also . wet rice cultivation is able to reduce the water supply we used , as the field is already flooded with water . singapore doesnt have any spare land that can be flooded with water , so we decided that if we were to create a wet rice cultivation , we would use places near the sea or even reservoirs . as places all over there has enough supply of water . singapore focuses more on building houses and company etc etc . the thought of having to create a wet rice cultivation is going to need money , and water . the lands in singapore are mostly dry , and not covered with water .

What is the food product we've chose ?

RICE .
our group chose rice , is basically cause singapore's staple food is rice . rice is also rich in carbohydrates . singapore relies on other country to import rice and it doesnt have its own rice cultivation farm . when doing wet rice cultivation it needs flooded fields in the lowlands of hot and wet region . certain areas in singapore has lowlands of hot and wet region . singapore climate is normally humid , but it do rains heavily at times . wet rice cultivation needs sunlight and heavy rainfall during the growing season . if singaporeans has their own wet rice cultivation farm , it can reduce the amount money we spent importing rice from other country .