BUILDINGS & PLACES SINGAPORE BOOK OF RECORDS
Largest Arowana Farm
Dreamfi sh Inc specialises in breeding Asian arowanas and has even produced its own bloodline – the Merlion Arowana. Started in 2000, it produces 2,000 arowanas a year and has 116 ponds in the 80,000 sq m farm at Lim Chu Kang Agrotechnology Park.
Only Cattle Farm
Vishnu Dairy Farm in Lim Chu Kang is Singapore’s only dairy farm. It has about 200 cows producing milk for sale.
Only Inland Food Fish Farm
The 3.8-ha Khai Seng fi sh farm breeds and rears fi sh like giant snakeheads, grouper, red tilapia, bullfrog, patin, toman and grass carp. Incorporated in 1997, it is the only fi sh farm in Singapore that has a licence to retail fi sh at its own premises.
Largest Food Fish Farm
Located off Pulau Semakau, Barramundi Asia produces 500 tons of barramundi, also known as Asian sea bass, a year. It began harvesting the fi sh from its 14 sea cages in Oct 2009 as they reached about one kg each. The bar- ramundi fry comes from the AVA’s Marine Aquaculture Centre at St John’s Island, Singapore’s fi rst sea bass hatchery. The genetically selected fast-growing fry met its commercial success in 2007.
First Cobia Fish Farm
Changi Fishery successfully bred cobia for the mass market in 2008. Also known as the black kingfi sh or lemon fi sh, it is suitable for sashimi or raw consump- tion. The fi shery is the largest fl oating kelong currently operating in Singapore waters, using hydraulically operated kelong nets. It is able to net more then 100 kg of fi shes and seafood each day.
Only Quail Farm
Lian Wah Hang Quail Farm is the leading quail and game bird farm in Singapore. Ho Seng Choon started it as a chicken farm in 1954. It has 100,000 to 150,000 quails at any one time and 36,000 quail eggs are collected each day. The farm also breeds guinea fowl, pigeon and kampong chicken.
Largest Ornamental Fish Exporter
The Qian Hu group is the region’s biggest exporter of ornamental fi sh, capturing more than fi ve percent of global market share. Its main business focus is in arowana, ornamental fi sh and pet accessories. It carries about 500 types of ornamental fi sh imported from all parts of Asia, Africa and South America, which are in turn exported to over 60 countries worldwide. In Singapore, it breeds 200 species of fi sh. It collaborates with Temasek Life Sci- ences Laboratories to undertake research into arowana bredding. It is the fi rst to use an RFID chip to tag each arowana for export so that details of each fi sh is recorded and the supply chain processes carefully monitored.
First To Export Tropical Fish To The West
Teo Way Yong, a fi sh shop owner in the 1940s, was the fi rst to sell tropical fi sh to the West. He made his fi rst business trip to the United States in 1947 by ship with a tin can fi lled with guppies. Today, Teo Way Yong & Sons is one of the largest exporters of tropical fi sh in Singapore.
Only Goat Farm
Hay Dairies Farm in Lim Chu Kang is Singapore’s only goat farm. It has about 1,000 goats of mixed breed, producing milk for sale on the 2-ha farm.
First Farmstays D’Kranji Farm Resort is Singapore’s fi rst agri- tainment centre. The 20 farm villas at Lim Chu Kang comes with room service, housekeeping and spa services. The 547,883 sq ft attraction, which also has retail and food outlets, is being developed by HLH, one of the largest commercial corn producers in Asia.
Top Ornamental Fish Imported And Exported
In 2006, the top ornamental fi sh exported from Singapore is the tetra. The ornamental fi sh Singapore imported most is the dragon fi sh or arowana.
Of Ornamental Fish World’s Largest Exporter
Export sales for ornamental fi sh reached S$97.2 million in 2008, about 20 percent of the industry’s world trade. This kept Singapore in the top position, a place it has held since the 1950s.
Only Bee Farm
In 2000, Xali Pte Ltd set up the fi rst and only bee farm in Singapore.
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