Agriculture
- What Is Hydroponics?
Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions (water containing fertilizers) with or without the use of an artificial medium (sand, gravel, vermiculite, rockwool, perlite, peatmoss. coir, or sawdust) to provide mechanical support....
- Hydroponic Farming To Help Achieve Agri Targets
Pakistan can enhance vegetable and fruit crops yield with hydroponic farming technology to overcome the food shortages and price hike tendency. This technology would not only raise yield but also enhance nutrition abilities of plants. Hydroponics can...
- What Is Hydroponics?
Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions (water containing fertilizers) with or without the use of an artificial medium (sand, gravel, vermiculite, rockwool, perlite, peatmoss. coir, or sawdust) to provide mechanical support....
- Hydro-culture: A New Farming Technique
The word hydroponics has its derivation from the combining of two Greek words, hydro meaning water and ponosmeaning labor, i.e., working water. The word first appeared in a scientific magazine article (Science, Feb 178:1) published in 1937 and authored...
- Hydroponics Vs Soil
With hydroponics currently at new heights in the gardening world, the question facing gardeners today is Hydroponics or Soil? This question is also becoming an age old debate of battling sides fighting to prove the other wrong. I won?t be taking a stance...
Agriculture
Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydroponics
Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions (water containing fertilizers) with or without the use of an artificial medium (sand, gravel, vermiculite, rock wool, perlite, peat moss. coir, or sawdust) to provide mechanical support.
Advantages of Hydroponics
Advantages of Hydroponics
- No soil is needed
- The water stays in the system and can be reused- thus, lower water costs
- It is possible to control the nutrition levels in their entirety- thus, lower nutrition costs
- No nutrition pollution is released into the environment because of the controlled system
- Stable and high yields
- Pests and diseases are easier to get rid of than in soil because of the container?s mobility
- The hydroponic conditions (presence of fertilizer and high humidity) create an environment that stimulates salmonella growth.
- Another disadvantage is pathogens attacks including damp-off due to Verticillium wilt caused by the high moisture levels associated with hydroponics and overwatering of soil based plants.
- Also, many hydroponic plants require different fertilizers and containment system.
- What Is Hydroponics?
Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions (water containing fertilizers) with or without the use of an artificial medium (sand, gravel, vermiculite, rockwool, perlite, peatmoss. coir, or sawdust) to provide mechanical support....
- Hydroponic Farming To Help Achieve Agri Targets
Pakistan can enhance vegetable and fruit crops yield with hydroponic farming technology to overcome the food shortages and price hike tendency. This technology would not only raise yield but also enhance nutrition abilities of plants. Hydroponics can...
- What Is Hydroponics?
Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions (water containing fertilizers) with or without the use of an artificial medium (sand, gravel, vermiculite, rockwool, perlite, peatmoss. coir, or sawdust) to provide mechanical support....
- Hydro-culture: A New Farming Technique
The word hydroponics has its derivation from the combining of two Greek words, hydro meaning water and ponosmeaning labor, i.e., working water. The word first appeared in a scientific magazine article (Science, Feb 178:1) published in 1937 and authored...
- Hydroponics Vs Soil
With hydroponics currently at new heights in the gardening world, the question facing gardeners today is Hydroponics or Soil? This question is also becoming an age old debate of battling sides fighting to prove the other wrong. I won?t be taking a stance...