New technologies are coming up every day in the world. As the world population is growing, the agriculture industry is also developing new techniques to grow food in lesser space and by saving water. The hydroponic growing system is a step towards this.
Hydroponic System is a system of growing crops without soil, often called soilless farming. In the hydroponic system, the plant roots grow in a liquid nutrient solution or inside the moist inert materials like Rockwool and Vermiculite. The liquid nutrient solution is a mixture of essential plant nutrients in the water.
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Our systems are designed to sustain plants for more than 3 days if there is a power cut and are designed to be easily assembled, operated and serviced.
The growing methods for each type of crop can be different so as the hydroponic system. When you are choosing between the various hydroponic systems, knowing about the basics of that system will help you in making the decision.
Nutrient Film Technique (NFT)
Nutrient Film Technique, gully channels are used in this system to grow plants, the nutrient solution keeps flowing in these gully channels. A pump connected to the reservoir pumps the nutrient solution to the NFT channels.
One of the advantages of the NFT is the easy installation of the system and the relatively low cost of the materials.
Live components
An aquaponic system depends on different live components to work successfully. The three main live components are plants, fish (or other aquatic creatures) and bacteria. Some systems also include additional live components like worms.
What Can You Grow?
The fish and plants that you select for your aquaponic system should have similar needs as far as temperature and pH. As a general rule, warm, fresh water fish and leafy crops, such as lettuce, greens and herbs will do the best.
Most commercial growers raise leafy crops, but you can grow all kinds of plants in aquaponics. At our demonstration facility at Nelson and Pade, Inc.®, we have raised lettuce, swiss chard, kale, collards, herbs, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, radishes, carrots, green onions, leeks, beans, peas, kohlrabi, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, sunflowers, edible flowers and aloe. We even have tropical fruit trees in our aquaponic systems! Yes, we grow bananas, limes, oranges, lemons and pomegranates year ‘round in aquaponics!
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Aquaponics is a way to grow your own fish and vegetables at the same time. You feed the fish and the fish will feed your plants through their waste output.
The application of commercial aquaponics is growing exponentially as innovative entrepreneurs realize that local food production is a profitable venture that is critically important to food-safety and availability. Aquaponics allows a grower to supply fresh, local, premium quality fresh fish and vegetables year round!
Types of aquaponics
There are a few primary methods of aquaponic growing widely in use today:
Advantage of Aquaponics over Hydroponics
Recirculating Aquaculture
Most mainland fisheries are Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, or RAS, which tries to filter and re-use fish tank water. While RAS does attempt to address water conservation, it also brings it’s own issues
The tank water becomes polluted with fish effluent, giving off high concentrations of ammonia. Water has to be discharged at a rate of 10-20% of the total volume in the tank daily. This uses a tremendous amount of water. Again, in an aquaponics system, you never need to discharge your water
This water is often pumped into open streams where it pollutes and destroys waterways.
Because of this unhealthy environment fish are prone to disease and are often treated with medicines, including antibiotics. Fish disease is rare in an aquaponics system.
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Higher productivity than the traditional farming system, the plant nutrients are effectively used, and there is no wastage.
Saves Space
Water Conservation
Faster Growth
Organic Foods
Our systems are designed to sustain plants for more than 3 days if there is a power cut and are designed to be easily assembled, operated and serviced.
For one thing, soil-borne diseases aren’t an issue in hydroponics because there is no soil for those diseases to fester and spread in.
Plants grown in soil need to spread their roots in order to find water and all the nutrients they need to survive. This means they must be planted a certain distance apart from each other.
Hydroponic systems use about 10 times less water because it’s delivered in a controlled way. Plus, some systems recirculate water, reducing consumption even more!
Crops grow faster in hydroponic systems because they receive an ideal amount of nutrients and, if grown indoors, have less environmentally induced stress (like weather and pests).
The volume of water that goes into irrigating conventional vegetable farms and fruit orchards is staggering
One of the biggest advantages of growing your own food is that you know what it contains
So far we have seen great success with our clients accross the country. We are continuously adding more technology and efficiency to our products.
The benefits of hydroponic farming give it an advantage over field farming.
The growing system depends on the type of plant you want to grow in your hydroponic farm. If you are planning to crops like lettuce, kale, the NFT system will be suitable, and if you need to grow vegetable crops like tomato and cucumber, the Dutch bucket system will be fit.
With years of experience we have a well seasoned team at the helm. These are the people that make the magic happen
We believe that you should be able to grow your plants in a sustainable and healthy way without burning a hole in your pockets. To help in your journey of conscious growing we founded this healthier and more efficient way of staying connected with nature.
