Follow Hydroponic Farming in Times of Climate Change and Supply Chain Disruptions
Follow Hydroponic Farming in Times of Climate Change and Supply Chain Disruptions Home / Blogs Climate change and weather-related events has emerged as one of the major risk factors in farming in the recent times. Hydroponic and aeroponic farming carried out indoors with vertical farming techniques has emerged as one of the alternate food production […]
How to Become a Skilled Hydroponic Grower?
How to Become a Skilled Hydroponic Grower? Home / Blogs Benefits of hydroponic farming such as highest water and fertilizer use efficiency, vertical space use efficiency, year round production, pesticides residue and pathogen free safe food, freedom from the risks of climate change as well as fast turn over of produce irrespective of climate, season […]
Hydroponic Vegetable Production in Times of Rapid Urbanization
Hydroponic Vegetable Production in Times of Rapid Urbanization Home / Blogs Vegetables are required in every household on daily basis, their availability in times of rapid urbanization and shrinking of arable land around the cities has posed a challenge with respect to their sustained availability. Hydroponic or soilless production system therefore addresses most of the […]
Setting Up Commercial Hydroponic Farming Systems in India
Setting Up Commercial Hydroponic Farming Systems in India Home / Blogs Hydroponics means Growing plants in water fortified with essential nutrients, an alternate farming system, quite different from conventional open field farming. Whereas, field farming is not only resource intensive and dependant on a number of soils, climate and pest infestation factors, hydroponic farming is […]
Adoption of Hydroponic Cultivation
Adoption of Hydroponic Cultivation Home / Blogs The importance of training in hydroponics lies not only in building one’s capacity in adopting the latest hydroponic techniques but also in avoiding the pit falls in way of successful operationalization of hydroponic farming. Installation of a Plant factory for commercial/ industrial hydroponic farming involves expertise from bioengineering […]
Hydroponic Lettuce
Nutrient Solution- The Soul of Hydroponics Home / Blogs Leafy vegetables are most preferred for hydroponic production and lettuce is amongst the most dominating leafy vegetables worldwide. Ever since key chemical inputs like many soil disinfectants were banned, hydroponic lettuce production gained importance. There are mainly five systems that can be deployed for hydro-lettuce production […]
Hydroponics Produce and Food Safety
Hydroponics Produce and Food Safety Home / Blogs The most hydroponic plant factories operate under controlled environment, thus allowing for a strict food safety quality control in the production systems. Contamination of produce with pesticides or other harmful substances is therefore ruled out and a genuine pesticide free produce of vegetables and fruits is assured. […]
Management of EC and pH in Hydroponics Systems
Management of EC and pH in Hydroponics Systems Home / Blogs Management of EC and pH of nutrient solutions used in various types of hydroponics systems is vital to ensure toxicity free availability of mineral nutrients to plants. EC reflects the concentration of mineral salt ions in a solution. Suitable EC (mS/cm) for different crops […]
Monitoring Hydroponic Fertigation
Monitoring Hydroponic Fertigation Home / Blogs Nutrient solution which supplies essential nutrients to plants is the soul of hydroponic system. Hydroponic feed formulas for different crops have been worked out. One can use a suitable software for right feeding of the hydroponic crop at different stages. Although it is well known that EC and pH […]
Dissolved Oxygen in Hydroponics
Utilization of Vertical Space with Hydroponics Home / Blogs Mostly, while describing hydroponic systems one’s focus is on management and monitoring of mineral nutrients in the nutrient solution, what generally goes under mentioned is the role of dissolved Oxygen in the nutrient solution. Oxygenation of root system in hydroponics is of vital importance to check […]
