Hydroponics – A Review

By Seerat Jan, Z. Rashid, T. A. Ahngar, S. Iqbal, M. Naikoo, Shabina Majeed, T. Bhat, Razia Gul, Insha Nazir. 2020

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Hydroponics can be briefly defined as cultivation of plants without soil (Savvas, 2017). In short, hydroponics, a Greek word meaning “hydro” (water) and “ponos” (labour) is the method of growing plants in different types of substrates (chemically inert), sand, gravel, or liquid (water), in which nutrients are added, but no soil is used (Savvas, 2003; Douglas, 1975) or hydroponics is a technique of growing plants in soil-less condition with their roots immersed in nutrient solution (Maharana and Koul, 2011). The word hydroponics was coined by Professor William Gericke in the early 1930s describe the growing of plants with their roots suspended in water containing mineral nutrients. Europe is considered the biggest market for hydroponics in which International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 8 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com

Subfields: Aquatic Science

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