Hydroponics is a system of growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in water. It has several advantages like producing higher yields than traditional gardening while using less water and startup costs. While commercial hydroponic systems can be costly, smaller systems using local materials can be effective for local markets. Centuries of research on ancient hanging gardens and floating gardens have proven that hydroponics is a viable solution for addressing issues like declining arable land, increasing population and food scarcity. The Philippine government recognizes the benefits of hydroponics and the Department of Science and Technology promotes its research and implementation.
Hydroponics is a system of growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in water. It has several advantages like producing higher yields than traditional gardening while using less water and startup costs. While commercial hydroponic systems can be costly, smaller systems using local materials can be effective for local markets. Centuries of research on ancient hanging gardens and floating gardens have proven that hydroponics is a viable solution for addressing issues like declining arable land, increasing population and food scarcity. The Philippine government recognizes the benefits of hydroponics and the Department of Science and Technology promotes its research and implementation.
Hydroponics is a system of growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in water. It has several advantages like producing higher yields than traditional gardening while using less water and startup costs. While commercial hydroponic systems can be costly, smaller systems using local materials can be effective for local markets. Centuries of research on ancient hanging gardens and floating gardens have proven that hydroponics is a viable solution for addressing issues like declining arable land, increasing population and food scarcity. The Philippine government recognizes the benefits of hydroponics and the Department of Science and Technology promotes its research and implementation.
Hydroponics is a system of growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in water. It has several advantages like producing higher yields than traditional gardening while using less water and startup costs. While commercial hydroponic systems can be costly, smaller systems using local materials can be effective for local markets. Centuries of research on ancient hanging gardens and floating gardens have proven that hydroponics is a viable solution for addressing issues like declining arable land, increasing population and food scarcity. The Philippine government recognizes the benefits of hydroponics and the Department of Science and Technology promotes its research and implementation.
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CHAPTER 2
INTRODUCTION TO HYDROPONICS 2.1 Hydroponics Hydroponics is the viable and replicable system of growing plants in water without soil that enables an all year round of plant production. Produce of these systems have proved of superior smell, taste quality and nutritional content than those commercially available by traditional gardening. It has market demands of global evidence that exponentially grows on its own to the point where producers have trouble of keeping up with the demands. It costs 80% less than the average startup costs and water used in traditional gardening.
Hydroponic technology is relatively new in the Philippines with Eden
Nature Park and Resort as Davao's pioneer. Commercial hydroponic systems are costly and ineffective for the local market; however, we have the ability to produce a single hydroponic system using the A-frame model that has a 180- plant capacity using local materials fashioned according to our Philippine environment.
2.2 Significance, Advantages, and Disadvantages
Centuries of extensive research of the anomaly of the presence of a secure food supply despite desert environments of the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon and the floating gardens of the Aztecs and Chinese in the 13th century have proved plants can be grown without soil and only by water.
From local to global issues stands the drastic changes of land
composition in terms of its mineral content, structure and price through erosion and modernization. The general increase in the world population, declining food resource, and rising taxes and inflation has led to the gradual manifestation of scarcity of water and real food. With these, hydroponics fits the bill for the perfect solution.
The growth and yield rate of a hydroponic plant is 30-50 percent faster and greater than a soil plant grown under the same conditions. Root growth is stimulated in hydroponics gardening that enables the plant’s root system to absorb nutrients faster. 4
Hydroponic gardens have total control to the nutrition harvested in its
produce and those nutrients are being delivered to the plant several times per day. With these, doors are opened for the production of food for certain patients who have certain nutrient needs.
Hydroponic plant requires very little energy to find and break down food. The hydroponic garden also does not use fertilizers and minimal pesticides for bug infestations, funguses and disease. In general, plants grown hydroponically are healthier and happier.
2.3 Legal Aspects and Regulatory Agencies
Sen. Manny Villar first introduced hydroponics to promote the scarce use of land resources in the Philippines. He initiated the Senate Bill No. 1105 or “An Act Promoting Hydroponics as an Instrument to Solve Problems of Food Security and as a Mechanism of Wise Use of Scarce Land Resources.”
This was introduced in congress to reduce pest problems and yield
more productivity. In areas where soil is lacking or unsuitable for growth, hydroponics offers an alternative production system. For plant hobbyists and for those who want to pursue urban agriculture, it can be utilized considering limited space and energy required.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is the public body
responsible for the administration of hydroponic farms and parks in the Philippines. Specifically, the DOST-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources and Development (PCAARRD), monitors the research and implementation of hydroponic farms. DOST finds the importance of hydroponic farming in ensuring food security in the Philippines and promotes it by conducting seminars to interested farmers in the Philippines.
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