Bollywood Veggies Explained

Bollywood Veggies Organic Farm (also known as Bollywood Veggies) is a farming collective and organic growing education center located in the Kranji district of North West Singapore.[1] [2] The center was launched in 2000 by Ivy Singh-Lim and her husband, former NTUC FairPrice chief executive, Lim Ho Seng, as a project to run after they had both retired from their previous careers.[3] [4] Neil Humphreys covered the center in his 2006 book Final Notes From a Great Island.[5]

In 2010 Bollywood Veggies was charged with failing to have its buildings inspected by a structural engineer or hold the inspections after several requests that they do so. Singh-Lim and Seng stated that they did not own the buildings on the center's property (as they were leasing the land[6]) and that they had not received any prior notices about the requested inspections, to which the courts stated that they were the legal owners of the buildings.[7] They were later cleared of the charges on March 25, 2011, after a judge ruled that it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Bollywood Veggies had received the notices.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan. Singapore Biodiversity. 2011. Editions Didier Millet. 9789814260084. 201.
  2. Web site: Aziz. Hatta. Bollywood Veggies and its 'praying hands' bananas. Travel CNN. 10 May 2014.
  3. Web site: Lee Si. Min. Bollywood Veggies - Singapore's very own farm and countryside. https://web.archive.org/web/20140831011022/https://sg.news.yahoo.com/bollywood-veggies-singapores-very-own-020000393.html. dead. 31 August 2014. Yahoo News. 10 May 2014.
  4. News: My Business: Finding paradise and success in retirement. BBC News . 24 September 2013 . 10 May 2014.
  5. Book: Humphreys, Neil. Final Notes From A Great Island. 2006. Marshall Cavendish Editions. 127–128. 9789814398961.
  6. Web site: Oakes-Ash. Rachael. The plot thickens. 22 March 2013 . SMH. 10 May 2014.
  7. Web site: Bollywood Veggies fails to get charges dropped. MSN. 10 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140512213344/http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4396611. 12 May 2014. dead.
  8. Web site: Bollywood Veggies cleared of building law charges . March 27, 2011 . Straits Times.

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