{"id":13967,"date":"2023-08-12T02:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:18:39","slug":"hydroponics-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hydroponics-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroponics Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hydroponics Farming:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hydroponics is a viable alternative to traditional farming methods for <strong>soil less cultivation<\/strong> for enhancing productivity and water use efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Hydroponics is a new concept in India and gaining popularity among entrepreneurs and innovative farmers, who are looking for sustainable and efficient ways to grow crops.<\/li>\n<li>At present, this technology is mostly confined to urban farming, rooftop gardening and commercial farming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cocoponics\u201d or the Soilless production of vegetables<\/strong>, using <strong>cocopeat as a substrate<\/strong>, which has been found to be comparatively more successful in many vegetable crops.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Institute has developed the complete production technology including a liquid nutrient formulation for soilless cultivation of zucchini, colour cabbage, chilli, brinjal, palak, amaranthus, coriander, cucumber, french bean, peas, cow pea, dolichos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Cocopeat?<\/h3>\n<p>Cocopeat, also known as coir pith or coir dust, is a natural fiber extracted from the husk of coconuts. It is a byproduct of the coconut industry and is commonly used as a growing medium in horticulture and gardening. Cocopeat has gained popularity as an alternative to traditional soil due to its many beneficial properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1947883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ADOPTION OF HYDROPONICS FARMING<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroponics Farming is a viable alternative to traditional farming methods for soil less cultivation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}