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воскресенье, 17 января 2016 г.

Aquaculture Hydroponics Is The Answer To The Modern Food Problems

By William Cole


There has been several questions relating to Aquaponics. The questions range from how the technology works, are the products safe for consumption, can it be set up in homes, and what the investment required among others. This simply tells you how quickly this farming technique is being adopted in the different parts of the world. Aquaponics simply refers to Aquaculture Hydroponics, an agricultural technique that harnesses the power of nature to solve food problems.

Hydroponics is simply the technique of growing plants without soil. The techniques rely on exposing the plant roots directly to waters rich in nutrients required by the plant. It has been used to successfully grow plants like lettuce, several salad greens as well as succulent herbs including basil.

The second farming method involved is the Aquaculture which is a technique that has been used in fish farming for the purpose of consumption. The two farming techniques produce waste, and the waste produced can meet each other's food requirement.

This is the basis of the farming technology; to use waste products from fish as food for plants and waste products from plants as food for fish. This means that the technology allows you to effortlessly harvest vegetables and fruits while benefiting from fish and other marine animals without h introduce fertilizers and chemicals into the system.

The results is that little space is required to set up a structure that can support large number of fish, fruits and vegetables with little initial investment and very little input from the farmer. The nature provides the solution to its own problem, and the resulting plants are healthy, the fish grows healthy and the farmer benefits from very healthy food sources.

Aquaponics takes advantage of an interdependence that you develop between plants and fish. Fish are put inside a tank and left there for some time - a few months initially to get the whole system primed for planting. The fishes' job is simple: eat and poop in a very normal way.

Rapid growth in population, climate change and expansion of urban centers has all contributed to a reduction farming activity. Vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products have become very expensive and almost out of reach to many middle income earners and low income households. Those who can afford the vegies are also demanding 100% organic products given the increase in chronic ailments linked to poor eating habits and consumption of chemicals like lead and other metals that are highly concentrated in some food products.

The emergence of numerous environment-conscious individuals, there are Aquaponics systems offered to suit everyone's needs. You will eventually realize that the profitability of hydroponics and hydroponics kits and Aquaponics systems as a business can depend on several factors. They can be set up almost anywhere and are very cheap to maintain.




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