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    Aquaponics is a sustainable system that integrates aquaculture (raising aquatic animals) and hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) by cycling nutrients between fish and plants. Fish waste provides nutrients for plants to grow while plants and bacteria naturally filter the water for the fish. This system dates back centuries to ancient civilizations and provides advantages like reduced labor, higher production, income from two products, and reuse of aquacultural waste. While the initial costs are high, constant monitoring is required, and market prices must be competitive, aquaponics offers opportunities for organic production, technology integration, indoor or vertical growing, and more sustainable local food sources.

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    Aquaponics is a sustainable system that integrates aquaculture (raising aquatic animals) and hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) by cycling nutrients between fish and plants. Fish waste provides nutrients for plants to grow while plants and bacteria naturally filter the water for the fish. This system dates back centuries to ancient civilizations and provides advantages like reduced labor, higher production, income from two products, and reuse of aquacultural waste. While the initial costs are high, constant monitoring is required, and market prices must be competitive, aquaponics offers opportunities for organic production, technology integration, indoor or vertical growing, and more sustainable local food sources.

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    Aquaponics

    Ryan Sultana
    What is Aquaponics?

    …‘Aquaponics is the art of “Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ...
    growing food with fish poop’, There can be no life without soil and no soil
    Anonymous without life; they have evolved together.”
    Charles E. Kellogg

    An integration of two systems:


    Hydroponics and Aquaculture

    The process of growing food in an inert The cultivation of aquatic


    medium by controlling and adding animals or plants for food.
    nutrients but without soil
    History

    Chinampas
    Built by Incas and Aztecs
    Between 14th -16th century A.D
    History

    Paddy Fields
    In China and Thailand
    Since the 6th Century
    History

    Barrays
    Built by Cambodians
    In Angkor, India
    Hydroponics – Growing in water…

    The Raft System


    also known as
    Deep Water Culture
    Hydroponics – Growing in water…

    The Raft System


    also known as
    Deep Water Culture
    Other Systems

    • NFT – Nutrient Film


    Technique
    • Wick System
    • Ebb and Flow
    • Drip System

    • Aeroponics

    Nutrient Film Technique


    Other Systems

    Aeroponics
    Aquac
    ulture

    Aquaponics
    Bact
    eria
    Hydro
    ponics
    SUN
    A Sustainable System

    2
    Why Aquaponics ?

    Advantages
    • Reduced labour
    • Higher production rate
    • Provides income from two separate products
    • Aquacultural waste products are used
    • A lot of current research and improvements
    going on
    Why Aquaponics ?

    Advantages
    • Less pests and diseases (if controlled)
    • Reduced carbon footprint
    • Reduced water loss
    Vertical Drip
    • Makes use of dead space System Towers
     Rooftops
     3-D vertical dimension
    Why Aquaponics?

    Disadvantages
    • High initial cost
     To fill up water tanks
     To build the system (Greenhouse, pumps etc.)
    • Requires skill and know-how
    • Constant monitoring of water parameters
    • Pests and diseases can be devastating
    • Limitations concerned with fish species reared
    • Competitive market prices
    Other Possibilities

    Organic Aquaponics
    • Natural fertilizer
    • Natural minerals (snail shells) - Check out ‘urban aquaponics in
    • Good marketing – labelling Oakland’ on youtube or Kijani Grows
    on a search engine for more ideas -

    Use of Technology
    • Smart phone applications
    • Pipe blockage warning
    • System automation
    Other Possibilities

    Growing Indoors
    • Can be used underground
    and indoors
    • Artificial lighting
    • May be a life-saviour in
    post-apocalyptic scenarios
    • The Great Tennessee Pot
    Cave drug bust
    Other Possibilities

    Growing Upwards
    • Futuristic Concepts
    • Growing locally
    • Dedicated Skyscraper
    Farms
    • Makes use of limited
    space availability
    • Space missions
    Other Possibilities

    Taken from the movie ‘Sunshine’


    Thank You

    “The ultimate goal of


    farming is not the
    growing of crops, but the
    cultivation and perfection
    of human beings.” 
    ― Masanobu Fukuoka, 
    The One-Straw Revolution

    Ryan Sultana

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