Let's Go Tour Qian Hu - Sustainable Farming Tour
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Many of you might have been to Qian Hu Fish Farm at Sungei Tengah since it is open to the public, but to go there for an educational tour on food security and sustainable farming, not many would have done so. With the availability of SingapoRediscovers Vouchers now, this could be a great tour for you to bring your kids to.
Living in Singapore, we rely largely on imported resources, food including. During the recent Covid lockdown, we witnessed how our government worked on its best to collaborate with countries to bring in more food sources while the whole world is looking internally for survival. Food insecurity, once prominent in poorer countries because richer countries can buy from others easily, became a hot topic because securing food from other countries was no longer as easy. This episode has highlighted to our young people the need to seek self-sustainable. With the advancement of technology, achieving a higher level of sustainability is possible, in fact, it is already happening.
AJ and I joined such an educational tour organised by Let's Go Tour last week to understand more. The theme of this educational tour is:
- Sustainability and Food Security
- Traditional Fish Farm vs High Tech Fish Farming
- Roadmap to 30-30 Vision of Singapore
We had a briefing/intro given by Tour Guide Yap before we start the tour
A game of fish to better understand sustainability created by Yap himself!
This is a restricted area. Only a guided tour is allowed in.
Spotted Pandan leaves! They will only grow when the place is free from toxins!
Besides the ornament fish business, QianHu also has ventured into Aquaculture, with the objective of producing antibiotic-free sustainable edible fish. Its aquaculture farm is in Hainan, China. They fly these antibiotic-free, edible fish to Singapore and other countries on demand, healthy and ALIVE. How? The fish will be hibernated for hours during transportation. In fact, the dead on arrival (DOA) rate is less than 3%. It is an amazing technology.
Closer to home, Tour Guide Yap from Let's Go Tour showed us this conventional prawn pond 👇 where farmers breed prawns. Such big space is needed, but, with better technology, prawns can be farmed healthier and quantity farmed 60 times more in a much smaller pond (second photo below).
Of course, not all are about aquaculture, the tour guide also brought the kids to see ornament fish, ornament tortoise, and pet crabs you can buy and keep at home.
Tortoise of different chromosome
Vampire Pet Crabs (don't they look like one?!)
Last but not least, after a heavy topic on the future of the world, the kids (and adults) unleash their 'childishness' in them trying fishing and feeding the koi and tortoise.
In my opinion, it is a waste of an opportunity to go all the way to Sungei Tengah just seeing the ornament fish and fishing without in-depth sharing on the fish farming technology and the objectives of having such farms. Thus, I am willing to pay for guided tours where the guide could shed light and share in-depth knowledge. Every opportunity with the kids is a learning opportunity for them, make every opportunity count.
For more information on the various guided tours organised by Let's Go Tour, please refer to their website: https://www.letsgotoursingapore.com/
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