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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. The center was launched in 2000 by Ivy Singh-Lim and her husband, former
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chief executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
, Lim Ho Seng, as a project to run after they had both retired from their previous careers.
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covered the center in his 2006 book ''Final Notes From a Great Island''. 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 ) 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. 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.


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* {{official website, http://www.bollywoodveggies.com/ Agriculture companies of Singapore Singaporean brands