S.V.P. University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut-250 110, India
*Corresponding Author Email: sengar65@gmail.com
Online published on 10 March, 2015.
Hydroponic or soil-less culture is a technology for growing plant in nutrients solution that supply all nutrient elements needed for optimum plant growth with or without the use of an inert medium such as gravel, vermiculite, rock wool, peat moss, saw duct coir duct, coconut fiber etc to provide mechanical support. These gardens produce the healthiest crops with high yields and are consistently reliable; gardening is clean and extremely easy, requiring very little effort. Nutrients are fed directly to the roots, as a result plants grow faster with smaller roots, plants may be grown closer, and only 1/5th of overall space and 1/20th of total water is needed to grow plants under soil-less culture in comparison to soil-based culture.
Hydroponics, nutrient solution, soil-less culture, starvation, agriculture