In Phuket, Thailand, Ming met former financial advisor William Leong who started a mushroom farm at the age of 56.
In Prey Veng province, Cambodia, former lecturer Desmond Chow breeds crawfish using the world’s first crawfish breeding technology which he developed.
The harvesting process, by contrast, was old-fashioned labour: Ming found himself chest-deep in a pond pulling in a laden, 3-m-long trap.
Ming then flew to Eganville, Canada, to work on a commercial sheep farm owned by former non-profit worker Wesley Godden. He was just in time for lambing season, … with several ewes close to giving birth.
The last stop was Ryujinmura, Japan, where Lee Xian Jie, 33, lives among septuagenarians who’ve loaned him their land for free to farm rice.
In this final episode which airs this week, Ming discovers there’s truth to the folk song, “Planting rice is never fun”. He also hikes up a treacherous mountain to unclog a drain supplying spring water to the rice fields.
Indeed, some Singaporeans not only love their food – but also grow them with the same measure of passion.
June Lee
Executive Producer, On The Red Dot
