Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Some of the earliest examples of hydroponics date back thousands of years to structures like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Modern hydroponics was popularized in the early 1900s by William Gericke. Hydroponics offers several benefits over traditional soil-based agriculture including greater control over the growing environment, less water usage due to recycling, and the ability to precisely control nutrients. While hydroponics requires more precision, it is seen as a sustainable solution to issues with food and water supply.
2. When Was Hydroponics Invented?
• Simply put, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants using only
water, nutrients, and a growing medium. The word hydroponics comes
from the roots “hydro”, meaning water, and “ponos”, meaning labor,
this method of gardening does not use soil.
• Sounds high tech and futuristic, right? It’s not
3. Hanging Garden.
The earliest examples of hydroponics date
back to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
and the Floating Gardens of China.
Humans used these techniques thousands
of years ago. Although the general theory
behind hydroponics remains the same,
modern technology has enabled us to
grow plants faster, stronger, and healthier.
4. Modern hydroponics-
• The earliest modern reference to hydroponics (last 100 years) was by a man named
William Frederick Gericke. While working at the University of California, Berkeley, he
began to popularize the idea that plants could be grown in a solution of nutrients and
water instead of soil.
• Naturally, the general public, as well as William’s colleagues, doubted this claim.
• He quickly proved them wrong by growing 25 foot high tomato vines using only water and
nutrients.
• He decided to call this growing method hydroponics. The shocking results of Gericke’s
experiment with tomatoes prompted further research into the field. More research was
performed by University of California scientists, who uncovered a great deal of benefits
related to soilless plant cultivation.
5. Benefits of Hydroponics
• One of the biggest advantages that
hydroponics has over soil growing is
water conservation. When growing
plants in soil, a grower has to be very
experienced to know how much water
to give his plants. Too much and the
plant’s roots are not able to get
enough oxygen. Too little and the
plant can dry out and die.
6. Oxygenated Nutrient Reservoir
• The water reservoir can be
constantly oxygenated, making
sure that the plant’s roots
obtain the optimum level of
oxygen. Additionally, the
problem of watering is solved
by the fact that the plant’s root
system no longer has soil
surrounding it, blocking oxygen
uptake by the roots
7. Uses Less Water
• Hydroponics uses much less
water than soil farming because it
can be recirculated. In traditional
farming, water is poured over the
ground and seeps into the soil.
Only a small fraction of the water
actually gets used by the plant.
Hydroponics allows for the
unused water to be recycled back
into the reservoir, ready for use in
the future. In dry and arid areas,
this is a massive benefit
8. Total Growing Control
• The final major benefit of hydroponics is the amount of control a
grower has over the environment. Pests and diseases are much easier
to deal with – your environment is often times portable and raised off
of the ground. This makes it hard for bugs to reach your plants. Any
soil-related diseases are completely written off in hydroponics as well.
Lastly, you’re able to control the amount of nutrients provided to your
plant precisely, saving on nutrition costs.
9. Farming of the Future
• With all of these advantages, it seems as if there’s nothing wrong with
hydroponics! Not entirely true. Soil does act as a buffer for growing
errors – in hydroponics, errors are much more costly and can ruin an
entire crop. In addition, higher levels of humidity do invite fungi and
mildew to the system, which can ruin a crop.
10. • In my opinion, these are small prices to pay for the vast improvements
that hydroponics has over traditional growing methods. We’re seeing
commercial hydroponic greenhouses pop up all over the world.
• In a world where fresh water and food supply are such hot issues, I
see hydroponics as a major way to solve these problems in a
sustainable and ecologically conscious way. The farming of the future
has begun!
11. Pisciculture(Fish Farming)
• Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, usually
for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a
particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled cultivation
and harvesting of aquatic animals such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and so
on, in natural or pseudo-natural environment. A facility that releases juvenile
fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species' natural
numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery. Worldwide, the most
important fish species produced in fish farming
are carp, catfish, salmon and tilapia.
12. Benefits of Pisciculture
• Global demand is increasing for dietary fish protein, which has resulted in
widespread overfishing in wild fisheries, resulting in significant decrease
in fish stocks and even complete depletion in some regions. Fish farming
allows establishment of artificial fish colonies that are provided with
sufficient feeding, protection from natural predators and competitive threats,
access to veterinarian service, and easier harvesting when needed, while
being separate from and thus do not usually impact the sustainable yields of
wild fish populations. While fish farming is practised worldwide, China alone
provides 62% of the world's farmed fish production
13. Costing and Estimating
• In this we will discuss about Costing or estimation of our project.
• We will be making this project by keeping size for following detail as follow,
• Length- 1.5 meter
• Breadth – 1 meter
• Height – 1 meter