Hydroponic Food Production
Introduction Since ancient times human beings have learned to work the earth in order to survive. With the pass of time humans have developed different ways to improve productivity when cultivating plants. This is particularly important with the increase in human population, lost farm lands and climate changes. (Arteca) Currently there are a couple of different methods to cultivate plants. Even thou Although all of them have the same objective of generating some kind of product from the plant, not all the process being used to grow plants necessary have a good yield few of the processes being used fail to have a good yield. This is where hydroponics is taking its place. Hydroponics cultivation is a method …show more content…
This is because plants that are being grown with hydroponics don 't touch the soil at all, and a All the nutrients provided to the plants its controlled. aAnother positive outcome of the hydroponics is that this process also reduces the contamination. During what we would call conventional farming, a lots of pesticides, chemicals and both organic and nonorganic fertilizer are being used. In conventional farming this helps produces high yields of produce, but the cost of it is that every time it rains, these chemicals get washed into the rivers and aquifers causing a second effect of polluting the environment. (Daniel, Rodriguez and …show more content…
All this also creates that the farmer gets longer to see its revenues. Another negative aspect of hydroponics is that the water need to be monitored to make sure the plants are getting the proper ratio of nutrients. (Daniel, Rodriguez and Rojas)
Hydroponic farming procedures. The most important aspects of growing plants hydroponically is the nutrients solution formulation will covered. (Arteca 558). The plants are grown in the an inert, sterile growing medium and fed mixture of water and nutrients. That coupled with the fact that it has all the specific nutrients, air and water it could ever want, means a plant can grow at a previously unheard of rate (Resh pp21-23). All the plants receive the same amount of water and nutrients. The nutrients solutions are Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorous, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Manganese, Iron, Copper, Zinc, and Chlorine. They are essential to a plant 's growth and development. (Winterborn). This formula was created by Hoagland and Arnon 's (1950). See table 1.1.
Macro elements Secondary Elements Micro Elements
N-nitrogen Ca-calcium
Introduction Since ancient times human beings have learned to work the earth in order to survive. With the pass of time humans have developed different ways to improve productivity when cultivating plants. This is particularly important with the increase in human population, lost farm lands and climate changes. (Arteca) Currently there are a couple of different methods to cultivate plants. Even thou Although all of them have the same objective of generating some kind of product from the plant, not all the process being used to grow plants necessary have a good yield few of the processes being used fail to have a good yield. This is where hydroponics is taking its place. Hydroponics cultivation is a method …show more content…
This is because plants that are being grown with hydroponics don 't touch the soil at all, and a All the nutrients provided to the plants its controlled. aAnother positive outcome of the hydroponics is that this process also reduces the contamination. During what we would call conventional farming, a lots of pesticides, chemicals and both organic and nonorganic fertilizer are being used. In conventional farming this helps produces high yields of produce, but the cost of it is that every time it rains, these chemicals get washed into the rivers and aquifers causing a second effect of polluting the environment. (Daniel, Rodriguez and …show more content…
All this also creates that the farmer gets longer to see its revenues. Another negative aspect of hydroponics is that the water need to be monitored to make sure the plants are getting the proper ratio of nutrients. (Daniel, Rodriguez and Rojas)
Hydroponic farming procedures. The most important aspects of growing plants hydroponically is the nutrients solution formulation will covered. (Arteca 558). The plants are grown in the an inert, sterile growing medium and fed mixture of water and nutrients. That coupled with the fact that it has all the specific nutrients, air and water it could ever want, means a plant can grow at a previously unheard of rate (Resh pp21-23). All the plants receive the same amount of water and nutrients. The nutrients solutions are Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorous, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Manganese, Iron, Copper, Zinc, and Chlorine. They are essential to a plant 's growth and development. (Winterborn). This formula was created by Hoagland and Arnon 's (1950). See table 1.1.
Macro elements Secondary Elements Micro Elements
N-nitrogen Ca-calcium