Tag: hydroponics
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Hydroponics: An Emerging Agricultural Practice in the Modern World
Amit Kaushik & Vipin Kumar Terrestrial farming, a traditional agriculture practice is based on the use of soil as a medium to grow plants. Soil provides essential nutrients, retains water, helps in aeration, and provides anchorage to the plant for successful growth. At the same time, it also provides habitat to numerous microorganisms living close…
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Sowing in the sky
By Meenakshi Singh The year was 1999-2000, Dr. Despommier was giving a class on medical ecology. He asked his students to design rooftop gardens in Manhattan that could feed its entire population. But the calculations showed that available area would not be sufficient to grow enough food. The resultant idea was of farming or growing…