Hydroponics

It is the science of growing terrestrial plants in an aerated solution. It is also known as soil less or water culture. Hydroponic farming or vegetables and other essential plants is one of the techniques through which plantation in certain parts of the world has fulfilled the food requirement of the inhabitants. Hydroponics was developed to conduct experiments on the nutrient requirements of plants especially the micro-nutrients. The advantages of hydroponic farming are as follows:

1. It controls weeds and soil diseases problems.
2. Area required for cultivation is reduced.
3. Crops are successfully grown in arid parts of the world to meet the food requirements of those areas. Fore Example, tomato crops has been successfully grown in green-houses in some parts of the world through this technique.
4. It is used to determine which of the mineral elements are essential.