This post gives a little bit of the background. The owners of the goat farm, that the post is about, have originally owned a pig farm. They have started pig farming in the early 1970s, moving on from chicken breeding. In its heyday in the late 1970s - early 1980s the farm had 2,000 pigs, employed over 30 workers, and has "become one of the biggest suppliers of pork to the local market". But "[i]n the early 80s, pig farming was phased out in Singapore, with help from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority – AVA (formerly known as the Primary Production Department – PPD)".
So in 1988 the farm has started breeding goats.
Unfortunately "niche farms like this one ... are living on borrowed time. When they first moved to Kranji [a suburb in northwestern Singapore] they were given 20 year leases. When those expired, the government only gave them a 3 year renewal. ... the goat ... farmers I spoke to are worried that in less than three years they will be told to shutter their businesses."
Overall Singapore seems to be very dependent on other nations for food: beef from Australia and New Zealand (see my picture of a McDonald's ad at our local bus stop), sometimes from the US and Japan; chickens and pigs from Malaysia...
The AVA seems to address the food source/supply issue, by discussing the three key food items, eggs, fish, and leafy vegetables: "We import over 90% of the food we consume while local farms produce only 8% of vegetables, 8% of fish and 26% of eggs consumed in Singapore."...
They are actually not very forthcoming: what about the meat?
The major food sources of Singapore:
More specifically:
