Hydroponics As the world’s population grows exponentially‚ modern agricultural practices must focus on sustainability‚ to produce food while making efforts to maintain the environment. In order to produce more food for the growing population‚ producers have increased their use of viable agricultural lands resulting in 11% of earth being tilled for agriculture. While this number seems to be relatively low‚ it must be addressed that this 11% usage takes up almost all of the world’s land than can
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Hydroponics * What hydroponics is Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions‚ in water‚ without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium‚ such as perlite‚ gravel‚ mineral wool‚ or coconut husk. Researchers discovered in the 19th century that plants absorb essential mineral nutrients as inorganic ions in water. In natural conditions‚ soil acts as a mineral nutrient reservoir but the soil
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Hydroponics is a subset of hydro culture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions‚ in water‚ without soil. It is not a new invention‚ but its popularity is currently increasing drastically. People are now using this process of growing plants‚ flowers‚ and vegetables without soil in their homes‚ where previously it was mostly used just by professional gardeners. Because of the ’hydro’ in the name‚ it is a common misconception that the plants are being grown in water instead
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Hydroponic Vegetable Production By CYF Hydroponics has often been thought of as the future of growing‚ what many people do not realize is that the concept has been around for a very long time and already has been applied to agriculture. Hydroponics is not just for flowers; in fact with its growing popularity in the past decade hydroponics has begun to be used for commercial vegetable production around the world. It is attracting to farmers because it presents them with a way
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HYDROPONICS Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions‚ in water‚ without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium‚ such as perlite‚gravel ‚mineral wool‚expanded clayor coconut husk . Some of the reasons why hydroponics is being adapted around the world for food production are the following: No soil is needed for hydroponics The water stays in the
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Hydroponics: Growing Without Soil The science of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than one-hundred years. The word “hydroponics”‚ however‚ is comparatively new. Dr. W.E. Gericke is usually given credit for coining the word‚ which translated from Greek‚ means “working water”. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were probably on of the first attempts to grow plants hydroponically. The work of Dr. Greicke in the 1920’s and 1930’s
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Aero Hydroponics - The Method of the Future The aero-hydroponic method was developed in Israel in the early 1980’s. Dr. Hillel Soffer‚ senior researcher at the VoIcani Institute at Ein Gedi developed the aero-hydroponic method to overcome the challenges presented by the hot‚ arid conditions at Ein Gedi. The discoveries that followed the development of aero-hydroponics offer great benefits to all hydroponic growers. During a two-year period from 1986 to 1988‚ Dr. Soffer performed extensive research
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Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in air or mist environment without the use of soil. Not to be confused with hydroponics or peeponics‚ aeroponics is the process of spraying or fogging the roots of the plants with a nutrient solution. The plants are usually housed in troughs‚ tubes or foam‚ with the leafy part of the plants separate from the roots. Moreover‚ the roots are usually fully exposed and constantly sprayed with micro bursts of atomized water. Why aeroponics are used? Since
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Commercial Hydroponic Crop Production [pic] Elizabeth Jones HORT 425 Introduction According to an article by National Geographic News‚ food production takes up nearly half of the Earth’s surface and an area roughly the size of South America is used for crop production alone (Owen‚ 2005). Imagine the demands that this large scale food production puts on our planet. According to the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department‚ Agricultural practices are the number one source
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HydroponicSNAP Hydroponics: Farming in the City and the Slums Written by jon Wednesday‚ 04 July 2012 16:03 - Last Updated Friday‚ 06 July 2012 14:50 Food is a basic human need that can be addressed by modern agriculture provided that there is adequate space and appropriate skills to raise them. Increasing demands brought by population growth have prompted agriculturists to explore alternative ways of raising crops and live stocks. One of these methods is producing vegetables through the Simple
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