Singapore, as the small city-state it is, relies highly on the import of food due to its lack of land to breed livestock and grow farms. With this supply chain issue now and Malaysia — Singapore’s main source of poultry — cutting exports of poultry, chicken is scarce and expensive.
With first the pandemic and then issues of food security weighing on traditional food supply chains, the alternative protein industry has evolved from an initial curiosity to one that is claiming a mainstream spot on consumers’ plates and palates.
For one, Singapore’s beloved national dish — chicken rice — is in trouble. With the war brewing in Ukraine, corn-based feed export from the country has been halted. Ukraine is the largest corn feed exporter. Hence, as countries worldwide face this shortage of chicken feed, the breeding of poultry is also affected, cascading down to consumers and affecting the sales of chicken rice in Singapore.
