The Urban Agriculture Centre of Innovation (UACOI) was officially launched in October 2022 to drive Research & Development (R&D) and innovation partnerships across the urban agriculture value chainchain. It will also support the build-up of innovation capabilities for SMEs in this sector. The Centre is led by Republic Polytechnic’s AGRI Centre and supported by Temasek Polytechnic’s CROPs Centre
It will focus on key areas of innovation and R&D commercialisation efforts as follows: