Category — Hydroponics News

For the these past 2008 Olympic games, China has decided to setup hydroponics systems to provide the fruits and vegetables that athletes require. With such strict regulations on what the athletes can consume hydroponics is the perfect way to ensure that the plants are within standards.

“The Chinese are mastering hydroponics rapidly, especially as they produce fruits and vegetables for the 2008 Olympics,” Evegeniy Yordanov, co-founder of advanced nutrients explains. “In fact, the Chinese government created a highly-regulated, guarded, organic, greenhouse-grown plant production infrastructure to guarantee the quantity and quality of the fruit and vegetable supply for Olympic athletes and visitors.”

Demand for hydroponics is also growing in China Middle class sector, because of the increased nutritional value, and reduced impact on the environment.

An Australian scientist is on a mission of a different kind at an international aquaculture conference this week, hoping to raise $100,000 for a fish farm project in Africa - funded by fellow delegates.

Steve Magarry’s been working on the Rwanda Village of Hope project in his own time after hearing about volunteers who’d built homes for widows and orphans who survived the country’s genocide in 1994.

He says other countries could also adopt the system but he needs a thousand dollars from a hundred Australian companies to make it happen.

“We’re looking at an aquaponics project which is to grow your aquaculture of your fish but also hydroponic fruit vegetables and value added products,” he said.

“The bottom line is food security and poverty reduction and the aquaponics and sustainable development is something that we can put towards making a real difference.”

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