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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]

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References

  1. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan (2011). Singapore Biodiversity. Editions Didier Millet. p. 201. ISBN   9789814260084.
  2. ↑ Aziz, Hatta. "Bollywood Veggies and its 'praying hands' bananas". Travel CNN. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Lee Si, Min. "Bollywood Veggies - Singapore's very own farm and countryside". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "My Business: Finding paradise and success in retirement". BBC. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Humphreys, Neil (2006). Final Notes From A Great Island. Marshall Cavendish Editions. pp. 127–128.
  6. ↑ Oakes-Ash, Rachael. "The plot thickens". SMH. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Bollywood Veggies fails to get charges dropped". MSN. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Bollywood Veggies cleared of building law charges". Straits Times . Retrieved March 27, 2011.
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