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Hydroponics – Soil-less farming

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Using technology and no soil hydroponics is all about new age farming technology.

Gourmet Garden
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Traditional farming has for very long focused only on productivity, with little attention to quality, safety, and consistency of veggies offered to consumers. Some of the key aspects that govern farming include soil, space and water. Rapidly vanishing farm lands and extensive farming depleting the soil of its natural resources has led to hydroponics. Simply speaking this is a method of growing vegetables and flowers that requires no soil. Instead the seeds are placed in an inert growing media with nutrient-rich solutions that also enables reuse of water while ensuring better control of nutrients and giving good yield.

This story first appeared in Free Press Journal dated Nov 1, 2020 here:

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