About Us

The Institute of Simplified Hydroponics is the brainchild of a Visionary called Lt Cdr (retd) CV Prakash, an ex-Indian Navy Officer (Submariner), based in Melbourne in Australia. " CV " is what he is known among his peers. His passion is Hydroponics. It is his wish to see Hydroponics/Soil-less cultivation spread throughout India in a very big way.

The Institute was founded by CV in Oct 2008 and with the help of his associates viz. Ms Peggy Bradley and Andy McLoughrin from the IISH, USA, he managed to unravel his vision by setting up India's first Hydroponic/Soil-less Vegetable garden in Bangalore by Feb 2009. Since then, our vision has come a long way.

The Institute has so far trained more than 1450 students from all over India. ISH has introduced One Day training programs for urbanites so that they are able to set up their own gardens at home, on their roof-tops, back and front yards. Those students interested in doing commercial cultivation, take part in a two day familiarisation course. Over a period of time we also intend to introduce long term commercial hydroponics courses too.

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The Institute has been in television and print media several times including in world leading Hydroponics magazines. ISH is now building a permanent training centre with a Simplified Hydroponics Garden, near Bidadi in Bangalore next to their Commercial Hydroponics Strawberry farm of one acre.

In a world of increasing population, global warming, shortage of good, clean water, problems with labour, increased use of expensive chemical fertilizers, depleted soils, increase in genetically modified foods, poor nutrition, newer diseases, rising costs of foodstuff, increase in world conflicts etc, Soil-less cultivation and Hydroponics can be a panacea for all that ails the growers. The future we know for certain, belongs to such technologies.

Other pages like the Gallery, News and Media on this website will show you how much work ISH has done in India so far and help you know how far it looks in to the future. ISH is indeed proud to spearhead such a revolution in India.