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Aquaponics approach

Aquaponics approach What is aquaponics? A simple answer is included aquaculture and hydroponics. It is a closed cycle. What are benefits of aquaponics? There are so many but we can show in shortly: nutrient management, plants grows fast twice, year ground production possible, prolonged individual plant life, less water consumption about 90%, soil pathogens eliminated, plants can be grown at desired height, no weeding.  What happens if we use aquaponics? The big problems are the environment. We need control light, temperature, humidity/ evaporation, air flow. There are some guidelines for aquaponic producers. 1.Use a feeding ration for design calculations:  -The optimum feeding rate ratio depends on many factors such as type of hydroponic system, plants being cultivated, chemical composition of source water and percentage of system water lost during solids removal. -The optimum feeding rate ratio for a nutrient film technology hydroponic system is roughly 25% o