Hydroponics - Benefits over traditional gardening.
Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture, which is a method of growing plants, usually crops, without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in an aqueous solvent. Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid, or, in addition, the roots may be physically supported by an inert medium such as perlite, gravel, or other substrates.
In today times where getting water for crop irrigation is so crucial, Hydroponics provides the solution by using minimal water for crop cultivation.
For eg: To grow 1 Kilogram of tomatoes using intensive farming requires 400 litres of water using hydroponics. Since it takes much less water grow produce, it could be possible in the future for providers in harsh environments with little accessible water to grow their own food.
Why do we choose Hydroponics?
· In the present time the water is the essential source for which we are getting less access day by day. As per the given situation hydroponics has given us the choice to grow our own crop with minimal water wastage.
· In market the vegetable crop is highly perishable hence the cost of the crop fluctuate a lot. While analyzing the demand in certain area, Hydroponics provides the fast growth of the crop, hence the farmer can sell his/her crop before the season where they can get the high price.
· More and more urban population if inclined towards the organic crop usage, hydroponics system gives us the opportunity to grow the crop organically with minimal pest and disease to the crop. Which gives the opportunity to the farmer to grow the crop organically, hence high quality crop with high income.
· Less water usage is the one of the highest advantage of the hydroponics system, we do not require to waste a high amount of water to grow the crop, even the areas which have low access to the water and irrigation to the crop, in those areas hydroponics can be a very promising system which can be used by today’s farmers.
· The growth rate of the crop would be 2X high by using hydroponics system. As we know in any season demand of off seasonal crop gets high, by using hydroponics the farmers can grow the crop before the season starts this would give the opportunity to farmer to sell their crop at a high rate.
· One of the main problem we face in soil crop cultivation is weed, which takes up the nutrient of the crop and hamper the main crop growth, while using hydroponics this problem can be eliminated because the weed formation does not occurs in hydroponics module which will help to grow the crop by using all effective nutrient.
Long story short, in today’s time where water is the most valuable resource we should think about the system which can work better than the cultural methods these days. Hydroponics can be such system which would definitely provide the best solution to the farmers with high yields, minimal water wastage and profitable income source for long time…
