Organic Hydroponics Production

HydroNet: An Intelligent Hydroponics Web Service Environment

In this work an intelligent web service environment for managing hydroponics cultivation processes is proposed. The environment is called HydroNet and includes information and personalized support to hydroponics’ interested groups. The aim is to give the producer the opportunity to access for the first time hydroponics consulting services that meet his/her particular needs over the web. The env...

Hydroponics Worldwide - a Technical Overview

Growing greenhouse vegetables is one of the most exacting and intense forms of all agricultural enterprises. In combination with greenhouses, hydroponics is becoming increasingly popular, especially in the United States, Canada, western Europe, and Japan. It is high technology and capital intensive. It is highly productive, conservative of water and land and protective of the environment. For p...

Production of Organic Acids

Aquaponics: integrating fish feeding rates and ion waste production for strawberry hydroponics

Aquaponics is the science of integrating intensive fish aquaculture with plant production in recirculating water systems. Although ion waste production by f ish cannot satisfy all plant requirements, less is known about the relationship between total feed provided for f ish and the production of milliequivalents (mEq) of different macronutrients for plants, especially for nutrient flow hydropon...

Manures for Organic Crop Production

Livestock manures are an important resource in sustainable and organic crop production. This publication addresses the problems and challenges of using both raw and composted manures and discusses some of the solutions. It also deals with guano, a similar material. Manures for Organic