Some of the ways to overcome these challenges:

-Raising levels of self-sufficiency will be limited by the scarcity of agricultural land.

-Agri-biotechnology has the greatest potential to improve agriculture in this millennium.

-Ongoing collaborative research with industry, tertiary institutions and research institutes can be further strengthened to develop new products

-continually upgrade the supporting infrastructure as well as the expertise of the professionals.

-Primary Production Department was restructured into a statutory board, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority or AVA, on 1 April 2000 in response to these needs. As a statutory board, AVA is equipped with greater autonomy and flexibility to enable it to better respond to the challenges faced by the food and agriculture industry in this millennium.

-Food Control Division (formerly part of the Ministry of the Environment) was formed on 1 July 2002 so that AVA can now regulates the safety of both fresh produce and processed foods, from production right up to just before retail.

-highly trained professionals will strive to build on past achievements and bring AVA to greater heights.

0new Marine Aquaculture Centre at St John's Island is set to boost marine aquaculture development in the region.

-establishment of two new laboratories, the Veterinary Public Health Laboratory and the Animal and Plant Health Laboratory, that are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and capabilities, will strengthen AVA ability to deal with emerging threats and be well- positioned to serve as regional reference centres for food safety, and for animal and plant health.

With all these solution, Singapore will able to overcome the problems of setting up high tech farming and lesser food will be imported. More Singaporeans will eat more of the local food produced.