• Bindu

Have you ever wanted to grow your own vegetables or herbs at home but were unable to do so for lack of space? If so hydroponics gardening could be the answer you have been looking for. It basically involves growing healthy plants without the use of a traditional soil medium. Hydroponics allows plants to grow up to 50%faster than they would in soil. Also, fresh produce can be harvested from a hydroponic garden throughout the year, eliminates the need for herbicides and pesticides, reducing the constant need for a fresh water supply. The right nutrient mix combines primary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, magnesium), secondary nutrients ( calcium, sulphur, phosphorus) and micronutrients ( iron, copper, manganese, zinc, molybdenum, boron). Hydroponics saves you 80 percent of irrigation water and gives you crops for 10 month of the year, more than ever, people across the world are becoming more conscious about what they are consuming and better sensitized to how the products they are consuming are being produced .In the case of soilless farming methods, it would appear that the next era of farming would be technological, in the hands of Urban residents instead of traditional Rural Farmers, and carried out in multi-storey towers of food and farming, not on soil but from soilless culture. This paper is going to underline the process of soil less farming and its need for sustainable development.

Soil Less Farming, Sustainable Development, Hydroponics

"Hydroponics: Soil- Less Farming, A Sustainable Agriculture System", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.66-70, June 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806807.pdf

"Hydroponics: Soil- Less Farming, A Sustainable Agriculture System", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp66-70, June 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806807.pdf