​NTU undergrad helps to build farm from scratch

The Straits Times, page B9

Lim Zi Jian yearned for something different from what most of his peers were doing for their internships, stuck behind a desk in an office. The third-year advertising undergraduate at NTU opted to help build a farm. “I realised that it gets a bit tedious and boring being in front of the computer all day,” said the 25-year-old. “So I thought: Why not take the leap and do something different for a year?” Lim, who was selected to join the NTU Overseas Entrepreneurship Programme, has been interning since August last year at a vertical farm start-up in New Jersey, in the United States, which hopes to revolutionise traditional agriculture methods.