Nutrients for Hydroponic Systems in Fruit Crops

Pramod Kumar and Simran Saini

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Abstract: Hydroponic systems for crop production are nowadays essential to maximize yields. Sometimes, the benefits of hydroponics have been questioned by the researchers as compared to growing of crops in other soilless culture. The growers raised the crops through hydroponics system get yields more compared to conventional practices as hydroponically grown plants dip their roots directly into nutrient-rich solutions. Therefore, the aim of the current chapter is to provide accurate and updated information about their different nutrients and their composition used hydroponically compared to conventional production mode. This chapter will be divided as the following sections: (1) rationale, (2) nutrient solution technique, and (3) work done on fruit crops. With this chapter, we hope to present an updated information, comparing hydroponic versus conventional technique.

Keywords: soilless culture; hydroponics; conventional production; nutrients; recycling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90991

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