Using Bamboo to Establish Aquaponics

Team member:

1. Maulidia Yuniarti
2. Wahyu Suci Rokhani
3. Ahmad Faudzi

SMK NEGERI NGADIROJO

Jl. Pacitan-Trenggalek Km. 40, Hadiwarno, Ngadirojo, Pacitan, Jawa Timur

Introduction and Rationale

A secondhand or used good is a piece of personal property that is being purchased by or

otherwise transferred to a second or later end user. A used good can also simply mean it is no longer

in the same condition as it was when transferred to the current owner. One of the used goods that

increasingly growing each day is mineral water glass that actually can be used as a craft. Not only

that, but mineral water glass can also be used as a medium of plants in the aquaponics.

As we already know, it is so difficult to find open land in the present for farming or

cultivation purposes because of municipal facilities and housing developments. As results, people

developed some system such as aquaponics because of that problem.

Bamboo is a type of grass plants with cavities and segments in the trunk. Bamboo has many

types. Other names of bamboo are reed, “aur”, and “eru”. In this world, bamboo is one of the fastest

growing plants, so that we can find it easily, especially in the tropic area. Because of that

characteristic, we can use bamboo in the aquaponics system.

The simplest definition of Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and

hydroponics (the soil-less growing of plants) that grows fish and plants together in one integrated

system. The fish waste provides an organic food source for the plants, and the plants naturally filter

the water for the fish.

The third participants are microbes (nitrifying bacteria). These bacteria convert ammonia

from the fish waste first into nitrites, then into nitrates. Nitrates are the form of nitrogen that plants

can uptake and use to grow. Solid fish waste is turned into vermicompost that also acts as food for

the plants. In combining both hydroponic and aquaculture systems, aquaponics capitalizes on their

benefits, and eliminates the drawbacks of each.

Aquaponics are generally paralon-based and very rare cultivators make bamboo-based

aquaponics. Bamboo-based aquaponics is one of the alternative manufactures of aquaponics.

Bamboo-based aquaponics is also not much different from the paralon-based aquaponics way. It can
be done by utilizing bamboos that can be found easily in our surrounding so that it’s not cost much

for expenditure in the manufacture of aquaponics.

Objectives

1. Make use of narrow land arround school to harvest and grow crops using bamboo-based

aquaponics system

2. Utilizing used goods as media especially mineral water glass

3. To cultivate fish as well as farming

Implementation Strategies and Activities to be Done

In this activity expect the use of narrow land for cultivation as well as cultivation by using

bamboo. Our member do it together. In more detail, the workmanship activities that we will do are

as follows::

Day 1 Preparation of tools and materials

Day 2 Making buffer tool

Day 3 Installation of cut bamboo slats and placing in the buffer toll

Day 4 Combine the bamboo slats in the buffer tool

Day 5 Install the pump and place the fish in the water reservoir

Day 6 Preparation of planting media and plant seed spread in prepared

media

Day 7 Moving the plants to an aquaponics medium

 Design of Aquaponics Prototype

Expected results

In this activity, the expected result is prototype aquaponics that it can utilize the narrow

land to cultivate crops and fish, especially using bamboo to be a medium of planting in aquaculture

cultivation.

Time and Duration of Implementation

The work of bamboo-based aquaponics done at SMKN Ngadirojo takes 1 week to complete

the project

Budget Requirement

1. 1 ounce of nail = 3.000

2. 1 plastic clip of vegetable seed = 4.000

3. 1 roll of Raffia fibre = 5.000

4. Coconut husk = 10.000

5. Bamboo = 15.000

6. Box = 70.000
7. Water pump =130.000

8. Paralon = 23.000

Amount =260.000
 PEMERINTAH PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR
DINAS PENDIDIKAN
SMK NEGERI NGADIROJO
Jl. Raya Pacitan-Trenggalek
Desa Hadiwarno, Kec. Ngadirojo, Kab. Pacitan
Telp./Fax.: (0357) 3219001, E-Mail : smkn_ngadirojo @yahoo.com
PACITAN
Kode Pos : 63572

5 April 2018

The Course Coordinators

SEAMEO BIOTROP Online Course on Urban Agriculture

Dear Sir/Madam:

This is to certify that the project entitled Using Bamboo to Establish Aquaponics

has been consulted with me by our teacher and students who joined your online training course on

urban agriculture. I understand that project assignment is a requirement for the team to get their

course completion certificates and also as an entry for the SEA Camp Competition on urban

agriculture.

Our school will try our best to help implement this project given the available resources we have as

well as the communities surrounding our school.

Thank you.

respecfully,
List the names of the team members

1. Maulidia Yuniarti (student)

2. Wahyu Suci Rokhani (student)
3. Ahmad Faudzi (student)
4. Redy Yuniarto (Teacher)