Thursday, February 2, 2012

Aquaculture and Hydroponics equals Aquaponics

When you grow plants for food, you need to feed the plants nutrients so they will grow well. When you grow fish for food, you need to remove their nutrient rich wastes so they will grow well. Aquaponics takes these two problems and combines them to form a common solution: use the wastes from growing fish to feed plants, which in turn clean the water so fish can thrive. Innovative solutions that turn wastes into valuable resources are a hallmark of sustainability.
Global population recently surpassed seven billion people, and increasing numbers of people fall ill from consumption of unhealthy food products. Besides the epidemic rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, experts are also concerned about increasing global food production to feed the growing human population. As the affluence of a population grows, along with their consumption of mainstream media and advertising, the demand for animal protein typically grows too.

Unfortunately, the moral and environmental costs of factory farming livestock for meat are nauseating. And of course it’s not just about having food to eat, it’s also about having access to tasty, healthy food that is affordable. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers. To get your copy of  'PPLAPP' click here.
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1 comment:

  1. True, nutrients is very essential to growth for every natural thing perfectly. Like wise growing plants with using hydroponic technique in in organic and inorganic solution contain water which having so many types of nutrients, help to growth of plants easily.
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