Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

HYDROPONICS: A REVIEW

Aishwarya Digvijay Mohite and G.R. Pathade

Abstract

It is extensively recognised that environmental problems such as soil declination affect numerous agrarian lands. These problems have been caused due to soil quality decline, crop yield reduction, profitable extremity, poverty, severance, and pastoral civic migration. In traditional husbandry, crops require a lot of space (growing area), consume a large amount of water, absorb a small amount of nutrients from the soil, and are fully dependent on meteorological conditions. Thus, growing crops in this way entails high costs and a high threat to invested finances. The nonstop stoked demand for food products is rising with the increase in world population. The traditional husbandry system won’t be suitable to cover the world’s imperative demand for food. One of the measures to reduce these factors is the use of hydroponics. Hydroponics is a system of growing plants in a water-grounded, nutrient-rich environment. Hydroponics will be a better way to produce different kinds of fruits, vegetables, and fodder, as well as meet the global nutrition demand in the future. The quality of yield, taste, and nutritional value of end products produced hydroponically are generally higher than those produced in natural soils. This civilization is cost-effective, complaint-free, eco-friendly, and gaining fashion ability all over the world, in both developed and developing countries. In the future, hydroponics could be a way of supplying food to the world’s population.