NUTRIENT FILM TECHNIQUE

A Specialised Technique Of Hydrphonics Growing Plants Without Soil

ABSTRACT
With the advent of civilization, open soil based agriculture is facing some major challenges ; most
importantly decrease in per capita land availability. Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization as
well as melting of icebergs, arable land under cultivation is further going to decrease. Under such
circumstances, in near future it will become impossible to feed the entire population using open field
system of agricultural production. Naturally soil-less culture is becoming more relevant in the present
scenario, to cope up with this challenges. Hydrophonics is a subset of hydroculture which is method of
growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Under the same
roof ,Nutrient Film Techniue (NFT) is a hydrophonic technique wherein a very shallow stream of water
containing all the dissolved nutrients required for plant growth is re-circulated and passed to the base
roots of plants in a water tight gully also known as channels. With NFT system a thin film of nutrient
solution flows through plastic channels, which contain the plants roots with no solid planting media.
using such technique has improved production of food under soil-less culture have shown promising
results on the entire globe.