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Growing food- without soil.

Author(s)
Bryan Platt
Abstract
The method consists of a well compacted area on a alight gradient-a fall of one in hundred is ideal with a trench at each end. Area is covered with a medium weight black polythene sheeting, trenches Included unless plastic or metal tanks are preferred. The top trench is filled with a specially prepared water and nutrient solution and allowed to flow slowly down at a depth of 1 m. m. This is collected in a low trench and piped water pump for recirculation. Plants placed at appropriate distances, apart in this solution, grow better and yield more. Recirculation results in saving of fertilizers, none is lost in the solid or washed away by rains. The cost of spraying and fumigation can be reduced or eliminated by insecticides. Weeds do not grow, crops can grow on the saltiest of soils.
Publication Details
Page(s) 35-36
DOI DOI not available
Published Journal: Science chronicle, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Year: 1975

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