Caltech Studying Keys To Urban Hydroponic Farming, Roof Farms
POMONA, Calif. — Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.
The program run by the California State Polytechnic University agriculture professor is part of a growing effort to use hydroponics _ a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil _ to bring farming into cities, where consumers are concentrated. Read More
Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products
Government promises to rid the nation's food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren't doing
the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group
of local children.
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Hydroponics to overcome soil and space constrains
Amir Khan Wanting to Grow his own Vegetables
A kitchen garden without soil
Filipino resident here has converted a small space by the entrance to his flat into a home to over a hundred plants as he turns to hydroponics for a hobby.
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Growing plants sans soil
Whoever said you need to pay through your nose to get some fresh vegetables? That you can’t grow vegetables in an urban 3-cent house or an apartment? That you need soil and pesticides and lots of water to grow vegetables? That it is messy and dirties your apartment?
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Now, grow your food outside the good earth
Are you one with a green thumb, but owns no land Well, one neednt be a mannina maga (son of the soil) to become a farmer, thanks to a newly-developed farming technology called hydroponics.
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Agri Intex 2009 snapshots - ISH participation (see pages 15 and 16)
The Institute of Simplified Hydroponics is the brainchild of a Visionary called Lt Cdr (retd) CV Prakash, an ex-Indian Naval Submariner, now based out of Melbourne in Australia. Download PDF
Get ready for soil-less cultivation
If you think that you cannot grow plants without soil, you are wrong. Soil-less cultivation and gardening has been a success in 21 countries. What is more, it will soon find practitioners in Bangalore. Download PDF
Planet Earth
Tired of stepping out for veggies and fruits? Well, then maybe you
should consider soil-less cultivation. Download PDF
Rotary Club Box Hill Bulletin April 8th 2009
The Project is aimed at “Feeding the World’s Poor” by growing food with Hydroponics.
In India there are 50 million people who are hungry. Download PDF
Article in Bangalore Mirror
With Space and green cover disappearing terrace gardening is becoming a hit in Bangalore Download PDF
