In the 1960s, Singapore was an agrarian society, with farmlands blanketing the north, west and east. The country was self-sufficient in eggs, poultry meat and pork.
Despite Singapore's urbanisation in the decades since, one of the children brought up on a farm back then is still a farmer today.
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