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| Hydroponics- A commercial Definition of Plantation
Due to day by day increasing chemical pollution and other toxic compounds in the food supply, people are looking for more safer and wholesome alternatives. Luckily, hydroponics is the exact fit for the consumer’s latest and new requirements.
Some commercial installations like Integrated Pest Management Techniques use no herbicides or pesticides. Consumers often pay a price premium for produce which is labeled "Organic". This means that lawyers and lobbyists are paid to establish rules and laws determining exactly who can charge consumers more and which produce can be legally sold with the label "Organic". Some States in the USA require soil as a "sine qua non" to obtain Organic Certification. So some food grown with hydroponics (using hydroponic systems) can be certified organic. In fact, they are the cleanest plants possible because the dirt in the food supply is extremely limited and there is no environment variable.
Hydroponics also saves an incredible amount of water; to produce the same amount of food, it uses as little as 1/20 the amount as a regular farm. The water table can be impacted by the water use and run-off of chemicals from farms, but hydroponics may minimize impact as well as having the advantage that water use and water returns are easier to measure. This gives the farmer the ability to measure consequences to the land around a farm and moreover save the farmer money by allowing reduced water use.
This new mindset is called Soil-less/Controlled Environment Agriculture (S/CEA) and the environment in a hydroponics greenhouse is tightly controlled for maximum efficiency. With this grower can make ultra-premium foods regardless of temperature and growing seasons, anywhere in the world. Growers monitor the humidity, temperature and pH level constantly. In an era of farm globalization where each successive year thousands of farms are closed down worldwide due to excess capacity, only the most efficient farms will be passed down to generations in the 22nd century. |
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