This document summarizes a farm in Abu Dhabi that uses hydroponics technology. It has the following key details:
- The farm belongs to Nasser Al Zaabi and is 33,000 square meters. It uses hydroponics, which is a method of growing plants without soil.
- Hydroponics saves 80% of water usage compared to traditional farming and allows crops to be grown year-round. It needs 600 gallons of water per irrigation versus 10,000 gallons for traditional farming.
- The farm grows tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and eggplants using nutrient solutions in greenhouses, which maintain an optimal 28 degree temperature. This allows high crop yields even in the summer
Reasonable Supplements to Traditional Farming
Touches on why traditional farming alone will not sustain us in the future and what some solutions are - such as hydroponics, vertical farming, and aquaponics.
Reasonable Supplements to Traditional Farming
Touches on why traditional farming alone will not sustain us in the future and what some solutions are - such as hydroponics, vertical farming, and aquaponics.
In this topic you can able to know about the agriculture and also how much the farmer struggles without crops and how the poor facing with starvation and lack of healthiness and you can know the value of food.
A Landscape Architect by training, Rupert has worked across a wide range of disciplines including Strategic Planning, Masterplanning & Urban Design focusing on the strategic importance of Landscape and the City. As an Associate Director at Atkins, he is responsible for developing new design approaches to Landscape, Ecology & Creating Healthy Cities.
In this talk Rupert explores trends in urban agriculture as well as propose some thoughts on new possible directions this might develop. Rapid urbanization has led our cities to have a dysfunctional relationship with the environment. What new safe agricultural industries will emerge from this new urban economy.
Contents:
Introduction
Definition of Green Revolution
History of Green Revolution
Methods used in Green Revolution
Basic Elements in Method of Green Revolution
Causes of Green Revolution
Effects of Green Revolution
Result/ Evaluation of Green Revolution
Advantages of Green Revolution
Limitations of Green Revolution
Advances in Vertical Farming by Dr. Brahma SinghDr. Brahma Singh
Traditional farming is threatened by resulting climate change, soil degradation and the loss of natural ecosystems. Another way of farming is needed not to replace it but supplement it to enforce sustainability. The answer is Vertical Farming which is consistently growing across geographies.
In this topic you can able to know about the agriculture and also how much the farmer struggles without crops and how the poor facing with starvation and lack of healthiness and you can know the value of food.
A Landscape Architect by training, Rupert has worked across a wide range of disciplines including Strategic Planning, Masterplanning & Urban Design focusing on the strategic importance of Landscape and the City. As an Associate Director at Atkins, he is responsible for developing new design approaches to Landscape, Ecology & Creating Healthy Cities.
In this talk Rupert explores trends in urban agriculture as well as propose some thoughts on new possible directions this might develop. Rapid urbanization has led our cities to have a dysfunctional relationship with the environment. What new safe agricultural industries will emerge from this new urban economy.
Contents:
Introduction
Definition of Green Revolution
History of Green Revolution
Methods used in Green Revolution
Basic Elements in Method of Green Revolution
Causes of Green Revolution
Effects of Green Revolution
Result/ Evaluation of Green Revolution
Advantages of Green Revolution
Limitations of Green Revolution
Advances in Vertical Farming by Dr. Brahma SinghDr. Brahma Singh
Traditional farming is threatened by resulting climate change, soil degradation and the loss of natural ecosystems. Another way of farming is needed not to replace it but supplement it to enforce sustainability. The answer is Vertical Farming which is consistently growing across geographies.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW
BASIC HYDROPONIC SYSTEM
HYDROPONIC GROW MEDIA
LIST OF CROPS
ADVANTAGES OF HYDROPONIC TECHNOLOGY
DISADVANTAGES OF HYDROPONIC TECHNOLOGY
FUTURE SCOPE OF HYDROPONIC TECHNOLOGY
CASE STUDY
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Hydroponics farming technology and contributions by ayurvet ltd.Pradip Burman
In the 1930s, hydroponics was used by residents of Wake Island in the Pacifics, where they grew vegetables in this technique to supply for the passengers of the Pan-American Airlines, whose aircrafts used to stop over at the islands for refueling.
To know more about Ayurvet and Mr. Pradip Burman visit - http://pradipburman.in
RainMaking International - Green AG, IncLarry Lipman
We Produce water from air, energy from waste and the sun and grow more food, economically than any other technology, utilizing unique vertical, climate controlled environments.
Our mission of compassion
Create Jobs
Skills training
Develop Enterprise
Provide a process to grow food in challenged climatic and economic conditions
Create water from air and waste/sun to energy
We are seeking opportunities to turn around economically deprived cities, counties, countries, and Native Tribes/First Nations by exporting food and water grown there.
This is a presentation made by Chief Visionary and Founder of the Pet bharo project in India at IIM Ahmedabad in 2009. This PPT takes a person intending to go into commercial hydrponics into the nuances of this industry. more details are available on www.petbharoproject.co.in or contact ceo@petbharoproject.co.in
Building Climate Smart FARMERSThe Indian PerspectiveICARDA
Presented by
DR. KIRIT N SHELAT, I.A.S. (Rtd)
National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD)
AHMEDABAD - INDIA
Hydroponic based Vertical farming, Soilless Farming - history of Hydroponic,World in Hydroponic:500BC-2023, Theory & Types of hydroponic, material requirement and apparatus requirement for Hydroponic, its working procedure, Experimental set-up and functional diagram for system communication, , Vertical farming technology, Procudure and Observation, Precaution before buying Hydroponics, Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydroponics, conclusion- Hydroponics
Hydroponics can save world's fresh water stock: says Pegasus Agritech Pegasus Agritech
Pegasus Agritech believes that the future water wars can be prevented to a great extend by the proper implementation of hydroponic farming techniques. According to them, hydroponics requires 60-90% less water than traditional farming methods.
Agri green, water & food security presentationagrigreenqatar
AGRI-GREEN is a high-tech environment friendly machine; an invention of Dr. Adnan Fahad Rashed Al Ramzani Al Naimi was created to address the above environmental concerns. AGRI-GREEN machine was designed to produce water from the humidity suspended in the air and made available for agricultural, industrial and drinking purposes.
The AGRI-GREEN machine is the most dynamic solution for any country's depressing problems. Since water is vital to sustain life of any living thing in this world, the creation of this new invention is perfect for the sustainability of life in this planet.
Soil-based agriculture is now facing major challenges due to urbanization, industrialization and environmental degradation etc. Among different problems, the most important one is the decline in per capita land availability. With 6 billion people on earth, the per capita land availability is currently 0.25 hectares and by 2050 it will be 0.16 hectares. Climate change along with urbanization and industrialization magnifies this negative Impact. To counteract these threats, hydroponics has emerged as a viable option which is currently gaining popularity around the world due to its efficient resource management. Hydroponic farms offer a viable solution towards a more sustainable food production while avoiding hazardous chemicals due to controlled environments and strict certification laws. Far from being a dream, hydroponic farming is already integrated into sustainable agriculture in order to meet rising global food demand.
A presentation about the System of Rice Intensification by Biksham Gujja, policy adviser, Global Freshwater Programme, WWF-International. Find out more at: http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/sri.html
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"Hydroponics saves you 80 per cent of irrigation water and gives you crops for 10 months of the year."
Nasser Al Zaabi, a successful farmer who has 33,000 square metres of farm in Al Khatem, the Eastern Region of Abu Dhabi
emirate, was surprised to see his guests on Thursday.
Dozens of delegates from the recently concluded Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture paid a visit to him after coming
to know about most sustainable farming solutions being used in a desert area like Abu Dhabi.
Al Zaabi's vegetables farm is using the hydroponics technology, considered most suitable for our harsh agricultural
conditions, poor in water, soil and climate.It was introduced to Abu Dhabi farmers in 2011 by the Abu Dhabi Farmers Services
Centre (ADFSC).
"Hydroponics saves you 80 per cent of irrigation water and gives you crops for 10 months of the year,"
Dr Ismail Al Hossani, agricultural consultant at ADFSC, told Khaleej Times.
There are two main types of hydroponics, the solution culture and the medium culture. The first uses just
water mixed with nutrients, while the second has a solid medium for the roots such as sand, gravel or
peat. Al Zaabi has gone for the second type for his farm. At least half a dozen green houses are lined up
in his farm, since hydroponics, which uses less pesticide, require growing plants in controlled
temperature areas.
In each of these greenhouses, which are protected from insects by several thick plastic curtains, there is
a massive fan that keeps the temperature at optimum level.
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"The weather can be 50 degrees outside in the height of summer, but thanks to new greenhouse
technology, the temperature will remain a steady 28 degrees, the optimal temperature for year-round growing of crops such
as tomatoes and cucumbers," said Basem Al Khawaldeh, ADFSC's Acting Farming Section Head.
Al Zaabi grows, tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicum and eggplants in his farm. The taste of a sun ripen tomato growing in
nutrient rich soil may never be quite the same as the greenhouse tomato growing with only basic nutrients but hydroponics
makes sense environmentally and economically.
If he once used 10,000 gallons of water for each irrigation of his outdoor farm, the green house hydroponics only requires
600 gallons, and even that is recyclable.
"There is a big tank of water outside the with an electrical pump, which pumps water to the greenhouses for five minutes,
every half an hour. Since the plants don't grow in soil, there is no absorption, so most of this water returns to the tank
through gravitational force," said Dr. Hossani.
"After one week a new water solution with nutrients is placed in the tank and the old one is used to irrigate the palm trees
outside," added Dr. Hossani.
However, it is very expensive. If it costs about Dh30,000 to Dh50,000 to set up a greenhouse farm, a hydroponic farm
would cost around Dh250,000 to establish."
What is hydroponics?
Hydroponics has been around since the 18th century, when scientists had discovered that plants don't necessarily need
soil to grow. All they need from soil is the minerals, which may be provided through nutrients dissolved in water. So this
agricultural technique is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. There are two
main types of hydroponics, the solution culture and the medium culture. The first uses just water mixed with nutrients, while
the second has a solid medium for the roots such as sand, gravel or peat (decayed vegetation).
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