Tips for Fish Farming in India
• Indian fisheries and aquaculture is an crucial sector of food production, providing nutritional security to the food basket, contributing to the agricultural exports and engaging around 14 million people in different activities. With distinct resources ranging from deep seas to lakes in the mountains and more than 10% of global biodiversity in terms of fish and shellfish species since independence, the country has shown consistency and sustained increments in fish production. Constituting about 6.3% of the global fish production, the sector contributes around 1.1% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 5.15% of the agricultural GDP. The total number of fish production of 10.1 million metric tonnes presently has nearby 65% contribution from the inland sector and nearly the same from culture fisheries. The yearly carp seed production is to the tune of 25 billion and that of shrimp about 12 billion, with increasing diversification in the recent past. Alongside food fish culture, ornamental fish culture and high value fish farming are gaining importance in the recent past.
Tips on designing the best Hydroponics System • To design the best hydroponics system, one must look at the host of factors contributing to plant growth, roughly these are the environment, temperature, nutrient delivery and protection from harmful agents. • Hydroponics farming in India looks to the use of Greenhouses as an answer to manage these factors. Greenhouses are huge structures built over tracts of flat land to accommodate the protected farming techniques, that uses climate control methods and such to grow seasonal crops in unseasonal weather. In hydroponics, an additional technology is used known as water chillers as a cool root zone promotes aeration and root health. • Polycarbonate is also more durable but it can be tough to work with due to its rigidity. The ultimate in greenhouse material technology is the Glass greenhouses, both the most expensive and the best to control temperature and climate. A Glass greenhouse would ultimately require a less frequent maintenance than any other type of greenhouse material. A glass greenhouse would be an ideal for doing hydroponics in Gurgaon or Delhi which have very varying climates.
• When looking at doing large scale hydroponics in India it is very important to remember that we undergo usually intense summers followed by pleasant winters. Heating is not a necessary concern except in extreme cold climates, but these climate zones are restricted to a few pockets and usually, the market for hydroponics is not present in these areas. However it should not discourage potential hydroponic farmers as the colder climates help them with growing high-value exotics. These have high export and commercial value in urban areas.
Vertical Farming
• Vertical farming is a technique of producing food and medicines on vertically stacked layers, vertically inclined surfaces and/or integrated in other structures (such as in a skyscraper, used warehouse, or shipping container).. These facilities utilize the artificial control of light, environmental control (humidity, temperature, gases...) and fertigation. Some vertical farms use techniques that are similar to greenhouses, where natural sunlight can be augmented with the artificial lighting and metal reflectors. • Hydroponic systems can also be lit by LEDs that mimic sunlight. Software can assure that all the plants get the same amount of light, water and nutrients. Proper management means that no herbicides, pesticides are required