Profitable Hydroponic Farming

• Sep 23
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The most efficient profitable hydroponic farming lies in hydroponic vertical farming carried out indoors as controlled environment agriculture with LED lights. Hydroponic vertical farming, especially when undertaken in the metros has many advantages such as higher production area made available via utilization of vertical space, ninety per cent less water use compared to open field production, controlled environment, pesticide free safe food and little supply chain disruptions. However, establishment of a hydroponic profitable venture in India requires knowledge and expertise of customizing hydroponic vertical farming technology suiting to subtropical conditions as most of the country broadly falls in these climatic conditions except for hilly regions. Secondly, one must know that the hydroponic produce under Indian conditions may have to compete with the field produce arriving in the market from different regions of the country which at times may be quite cheap. Therefore, two things are most important before one opts to go in for hydroponic profitable venture in India, first, a thorough knowledge of hydroponic vertical farming as customized for Indian conditions and second the assured market tie up with hotel or a retail chain or other arrangement for assured marketing of hydroponic produce. In India, the best organization to undertake customized training in hydroponic farming is at Institute of Horticulture Technology in its School of Hydroponics at Greater Noida (NCR) where a number of controlled environment horticulture hydroponic production systems are in full operation for providing end to end training on hydroponic farming. The School of Hydroponics not only provides trainings on hydroponic farming conducted by national and international experts, but also provides complete consultancy to set up hydroponic systems of different scales as per the requirement of the entrepreneurs or other stake holders.