Investigating the Potential of Aquaponics to Increase Food Production and Reduce Environmental Impact
The growing worldwide food request, and the increasing conservation concerns, are putting significant sustainability and source effectiveness challenges on outdated agricultural practices. Water procedures, soil deprivation, and unwarranted energy depletion are becoming gradually extraordinary. The...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2025-01-01
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| Series: | SHS Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2025/07/shsconf_iciaites2025_01047.pdf |
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| Summary: | The growing worldwide food request, and the increasing conservation concerns, are putting significant sustainability and source effectiveness challenges on outdated agricultural practices. Water procedures, soil deprivation, and unwarranted energy depletion are becoming gradually extraordinary. The budding of aquaponics — culling aquaculture with hydroponics — is taken up to lecture these encounters and classify food construction. The problem is that there is a need for a more fair and resource-effective cultured scheme to cope with the growing food stresses as well as decreasing consensual impressions. Conservation of conservational footprint takes place by restricting water traditions and reusing nutrients in their conservative approach such as soil-based agriculture and hydroponics. Association's fish gardening and plant gardening in a closed-loop organization. It makes use of the excess fish to supply nutrients to those plants, which serves to prevent the strainer and disinfect the water for the fish. The study assesses aquaponics that is equal to hydroponics, obsolete solid-based farming (for example), perpendicular unindustrialized farming, and aeroponics. Consequences reveal that aquaponics has smaller supply effectiveness, and less water and energy depletion, comparatively, than other procedures. It also confirms low-cost crop harvests and secondary environmental imprints, which makes it an apt explanation for supportable food fabrication. |
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| ISSN: | 2261-2424 |