1. “They used to pick out the bad eggs by hand, but this was not easy as the defects were like hairline cracks.
But from next month, workers at Seng Choon Farm can leave it to a machine that can go through 120,000 eggs an hour, sorting out bad ones more accurately and efficiently.
The machine of more than $2 million was co-funded by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) through a $63 million fund launched last August to help farms here boost yields and increase productivity.”
The Straits Times
Metropolitan Fishery Group chief executive Malcolm Ong with an aerator that AVA co-funded, at one of his offshore fish farms in Lim Chu Kang. PHOTO: COURTESY OF MALCOLM ONG
- The Straits Times
Agriculture Productivity Fund

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