The main issue with livestock production is the lack of quality and quantity feed. Further, non-availability fodders around year aggravates constraints of. Further complicating challenges sustainable farming round high fodder. A force to adopt environmentally friendly practices producing fodder (hydroponic technology) important satisfy demand green in dairy industry. Plants are grown for brief ...

This study aims to assess the factors influential towards decision made by consumers purchase hydroponic products. A quantitative research employing factor analysis, 100 samples were established as per accidental random sampling. The observed 11 variables – classified in four groups of product feature (packing, size, freshness, and crunchiness), value (competitiveness price), customer’s backgro...

Greenhouse studies were conducted to determine the effect of harvesting sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam.)] foliage tips (terminal 15 cm) on storage root yield, edible biomass index (EBI), and linear growth rate. Plants were grown hydroponically from 15-cm vine cuttings planted in 0.15 × 0.15 × 1.2-m growth channels using a recirculating nutrient film technique system. Nutrients were suppli...

Nutrient film technique (NFl) and deep water culture (DWC) hydroponic systems were used in a split-root study of the effect of four treatments on sweetpotato yield, the translocation of assimilates, and microbial population count. 'TU-155' cuttings (15 cm) were prerooted for 30 days in sand using deionized water and a modified half-Hoagland (MHH) solution. After 30 days, the plants were removed...

Acknowledgments: the work of Carmelo Maucieri was supported by Cost Action FA1305 “The EU Aquaponics Hub; Realising Sustainable Integrated Fish and Vegetable Production for the EU” grant COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-FA1305-011016-080268 and by a Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment research grant “Aquaponic Sustainable management of aquaculture effluent as an unconve...

Hydroponics is perhaps the most intensive method of crop production in today’s agricultural industry. It uses advanced technology, is highly productive, and is often capital-intensive. Since regulating the aerial and root environment is a major concern in such agricultural systems, production takes place inside enclosures that give control of air and root temperature, light, water, plant nutrit...

In order to address issues of limited resources and contamination by fertilizers, nutrient solutions may be reused in hydroponics as an alternative their disposal the environment. This work evaluated feasibility replacement for during lettuce hydroponic cultivation. The experiment was carried out agricultural greenhouse NFT system using “Milena” cultivar. divided into two stages: 1) monitoring ...