Hydroponics

The Future of Sustainable Farming
2024
ISBN: 978-1-0716-3992-4
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1045 g

Reihe: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series

This handbook covers both principal and applications aspects of hydroponics. This reference book shows the state-of-the-art in this area, while offering a clear view of supplying plants with nutrients other than soil. Chapters about hydroponics provides the reader with an understanding of the properties of the various soilless media and how these properties affect plant performance in relation to basic agricultural operations, such as fertilization and irrigation. Chapters explore the drawbacks and advantages of using hydroponics as a soilless crop production system and provide a wider view of science, technology, and economic impact of hydroponics.

This book is a valuable resource to agriculturists, horticulturalists, greenhouse and nursery managers, and professionals involved with the production of plants. The handbook provides chapters about technology and applications of hydroponics. It contains an overview of the relevance of aquaponics in the fulfillment of the SDGs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Nitish

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Biomaterialien, Nanomaterialien, Kohlenstoff
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Nutrient solutions in hydroponics.- Hydroponics: A Sustainable Approach for Plant Cultivation.- Hydroponic towards Sustainable Development.- Hydroponics with wastewater: Prospects and Opportunities.- Hydroponic Systems: Impact on Nutritional Status and Bioactive Compounds of Plants.- Hydroponics in vegetable crops: a review.- Hydroponic Solutions for Soilless Production Systems: Issues and Opportunities in a Smart Agriculture Perspective.- Hydroponic system: Hope and Hype.- The Future Of Hydroponic Systems.- Hydroponics and elicitation, a combined approach to enhance the production of bioactive compound from medicinal plants.- The Role of Hydroponics in Plant Biology Researches.- The use of aquaponic systems to achieve the sustainable development objectives of the 2030 Agenda: a systematic review.- Hydroponics: An alternative to cultivated green fodder: A review.- Opportunities and constraints in hydroponic crop production systems.- Hydroponic systems for cultivation of horticultural crops.- Exploring the Critical Success Factors for Vertical Farming in Developing Economies.- Aquaponics: The Ecological Hydroponic Method.- Aeroponics: A Modern Agriculture Technology under controlled environment.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of agriculture and crop improvement. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is a reviewer for various International Journals and serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene (Elsevier).