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What is hydroponics
Hydroponics, simply defined, is the growing of plants in a water and fertilizer solution containing the necessary nutrients for plant growth. The word was derived from two Greek words, meaning water, and ponos, meaning labor, or literally, water working.

Features

People are attaching more and more importance on the security of the food and sustainable environment for living. Since the pollution caused by the agriculture planting is getting worse, and the arable land is reducing, the soilless culture, with many advantages, is more and more in people’s graces in the world. The advantages of soilless cultures: safe, saving land and water, saving labor, saving fertilizer and pesticide, high yield and high quality, not subject to natural climate condition, no continuous cropping obstacle.

Details:

Here are five advantages of hydroponics in greenhouse:

First, Hydroponic crops grow more faster, and the output is higher, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, its output can be twice than plant in the soil.

Second, hydroponics is much clean and pollution-free. Because it use no manure, plant diseases and insect pests are relatively fewer, greatly reduce the use of pesticide, and without spraying herbicide, the product is greatly reduced fertilizer, pesticides, parasites, germs, and heavy metals and other pollution and the fruit is large and neat, also has bright color, commercial and edible quality are good.

Third, labor saving, water saving, fertilizer saving. Because there is no need for soil tillage and soil preparation, fertilizing, weeding etc., field management work is greatly reduced, not only can save labor, and the intensity of labor is also limited, can greatly improve the working conditions of agricultural production. Under the artificial control, nutrient solution through scientific management to ensure the supply of water and nutrients, which can greatly reduce the greenhouse cultivated soil moisture leakage, loss, evaporation and the evaporation, so in the desert area of soilless culture is also a very good "water-saving projects".

Fourth, it can avoid the harm of soil continuous cropping obstacles: if frequent continuous cropping soil, leading to soil borne diseases and pests growing, soil salt build-up, soil acidification  and harden handicap have become an important influenced the development of greenhouse vegetable production constraints, and hydroponics can avoid the occurrence of harm the soil continuous cropping obstacles.

Fifth, not limit by region, soil and other conditions. In greenhouse, roof, balcony and not for soil cultivation of places such as desert, oil field, tidal flat, and the serious pollution of soil areas all can be use hydroponics.

A type system can increases the usage space for culture 20~30%. It is suitable for short-term vegetables commonly like lettuce, crown daisy, etc.