HYDROPONICS

Inert (doesn’t provide any nutrition) medium:

cocopeat, perlite, vermiculite

Polyhouse not essential – shade net works

Uses water-soluble fertilisers

Aquaponics – fish tank (hence fish waste) feeds

nutrients to plants – yields both fish and
vegetables/fruits

Growbags Cabbage
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Chillies
Tomato
Mutter
Pots/growbags Flowers – eg rose
Gerbera
Trays Methi, Pala etc

METHODS
SUB-IRRIGATED: TOP IRRIGATED: WATER
BOTTOM WATER FROM TOP
Deep Water Culture Drip method
(DWC)
Wick Method
Aeroponics
EBB and Flow
Nutrient Film Technique
(NFT)

Materials required:
1. Substrate –
cocopeat/vermicule/perlite/sand/pinebark
2. Nutrient solution (pH mgmt./electrical
conductivity mgmt.) – macro nutrient tank +
micro nutrient tank (feed the water supply line in
scientific proportions)
3. Drip irrigation/growtrays/NFT/growbags/pots
4. Mulching – polythene mulching paper/groundnet

COSTS Rs
Small growbag (3yr life) 30-25
Long growbag (3yr life) 80-100
Drip irrigation 40,000 /acre
Fertilizer (operation 15-40,000 /10 gunta
cost)

CONVERSION
1 acre 40 gunta
¼ acre 10 gunta
DESIGNS
CONTACT
S
Seeds Sheti udyog bhandar 02024473615,
9370749049
Ovhal trading market
yard
Cocopeat Saswad (Ashok 9324439414
growbags Jamdade)
Indiamart.com,
TN/Kochi for bulk
supply
Consultan Gouri Jadhav, 7758011174,
t EarthAlliance 9325206907

What to grow: Herbs / flowers / salad exotics / exotic

fruits /