AQUAPONICS
WHAT IS AQUAPONICS?
Aquaponic is the combination of aquaculture and
hydroponics. Aquaculture is growing fishes and other marine organism and hydroponics is growing saplings, plants and vegetable without the
help of soil.
Basically, aquaponics makes the fish to work and plants get benefitted by the fish. In simple words, fish eat and produces waste which is secreted in the water and the wastes created by the fish is the most important nutrient required for the plants. The plants absorb the wastes produced by the fish and the plant also start to grow in a healthy way. In this way there will be a cycle between the fish and plants. Ultimately the one who get benefitted is not the fish nor the plant, humans are getting benefitted as they grow both fishes and plants and selling in an appropriate price.
These
days people are becoming more health conscious and want to eat healthy and
nutritious foods. With the help of aquaponics, you can grow your own vegetables
and give it to your family a good nutrition. If you want to feed your family
with nutritious food you can keep a small set up in your house which will more
than sufficient for your family, or you can make a small garden where you can
grow more plants. In case of business, you can grow plants but you have to make
sure that you have advance aquaponics material.
·
Aquaponics
uses 1/10th of the water of soil-based gardening and even less water
than hydroponics or recirculating aquaculture.
·
No
harmful petrochemicals, pesticides or herbicides can be used. It’s a natural
ecosystem.
· Aquaponic systems
can be put anywhere, use them outside, in a greenhouse, in your basement, or in
your living room. By using grow-lighting, and space can become a productive
garden.
· Aquaponic systems
are scalable. They can fit most sizes and budgets, from small counter top herbs to backyard
gardens, to full-scale farms, aquaponics can do it all.
· And the best part –
You get to harvest both plants and fish from your garden. Truly
raise your entire meal in your backyard
There are much more
advantages like you don’t have buy expensive artificial fertilizers or
anything. All we have to do is to give fodder to the fish and the rest will
happen like magic and you can see fresh and nutritious food. But one thing you
have to keep in mind while doing is that maintaining the pH level of the water
and providing the right environment for the plant that will prevent the plant
by getting damaged.
We can say that
Aquaponics might be the future farming because in future we might face water
shortage which will eventually lead us to move in Aquaponic culture.
Let’s make a healthy society by growing foods in your house
backyard with aquaponics and make it vast as much as possible making the world
healthier.
