Facts About Soiless Farming - 1

This article is the first in the series of articles in soilless farming that will be published here to enlighten our community about Soiless Farming practices.

In this piece, the focus is on the brief origin of Soiless farming and the practices of soilless farming compared to the conventional farming practices on the soil.

The origin and idea of Soiless Farming is traced back to the hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Floating Gardens of China about a thousand years ago, while modern development of Soiless Farming is traced to the late 1800s to the 1900s by scientist in California, the United States.

But time and technology has really played a great role in developing the concept of Soiless Farming.

Soiless Farming is a farming practice that involves growing of plants without the use of or presence of Soil. With this method of farming, the nutrients supply to the crop is not from the soil, but are dissolved in the right concentration to the source or water that is directly supplied to the root of the crop or plant and this is one of the major difference between Soiless Farming practice compared to the conventional farming practice on the soil.

Conventional farming practice requires that for crops to yield at it’s maximum, it has to be fertilized and the roots of the crops will have to work hard to absorb the nutrients from the soil and the nutrients may be interrupted and limited by certain environmental factors like the effect of climate change.

In Soilless Farming practice, the Nutrients are supplied directly to the plants in liquid form while their environmental and biological needs are closely monitored from seed, to nursery and to the harvest time to ensure their growth and output and thereby, making the plants to work much less.

Please enjoy the brief reading and hang on for the article on this series and any other project development updates in the coming days.