A Report On How Aquaponics System Helped Feeding The Hungry Program?
"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world." - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poetHow An Aquaponics System Fixed the Food Scarcity Problem of an Indian Village?
The panic and suffering of human hunger is the driving force behind my joining an NGO who was
This system helps us not only solve the food shortage crisis in that area, due to economic & climate change, but also helped to improve the economic conditions of those farmers. This survival is essential during any emergency.
Aquaponics really involves two very sustainable technologies in their own right: aquaculture, or the ability to grow fish and aquatic organisms in water, as well as hydroponics, the growing of plants without soil.
Are you interested to know how you can start aquaponics in your backyard?
Click here to get backyard aquaponics gardening tips using step by step DIY aquaponics guide. You can have your own vegetables like lettuce, herbs, spinach, watercress, tomatoes, cucumbers.The idea is to take the waste from the fishes and mix it with the water. The water becomes a nutrient-rich feed for the plants. The plants will take up those nutrients, filtering the water for the fish before it returns clean and sustaining a closed loop system. Ultimately, it is about recycling wastes into resources. It is about creating ecosystems in areas where they otherwise would not exist. It is about combining complimentary technologies together to try to close the loop on food production while promoting biodiversity. Ultimately, it is about producing food.
We try to use use rain water to avoid dangerous bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella.
Within an aquaponic system, it is possible to grow 30-50 kilos of vegetables for 1 kilo of fish waste produced.
Next, we integrated vermiculture (or wormeries). We take the waste from fish and grow plants with them, but once we have grown those plants, we take the waste of those plants and put them into wormeries. Whether it is the root system or outer leaves. From that, we can produce vermicomposte to provide soil enrichment for soil grown crops and worm tea, which provides a biopesticide to spray onto the plants. This also includes a foliar fertilizer as well.
Next, we started using black soldier flies. These incredible little creatures outcompete the disease carrying blue and green bottle maggots. We then take cooked and uncooked fish waste, the guts, the head, and all the processing wastes, and we put them in enclosures where the soldier flies eat. Here they turn that waste product into a usable form of protein.
De-composing with black soldier larvae is a fascinating & rewarding method as a part of green technology.
Next, we take the soldier flies that have fed from those fish, and use them to produce food to feed to chickens, and then we use the chicken waste to produce more soldier flies to feed back to the fish. The result is more output and further lowering of our input. Along with the chickens, we get eggs. We have also integrated giant freshwater prawns, which clean algae from the water.
Are you interested to know how to create a chicken coop at your back yard?
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We have integrated this closed loop system with photovoltaic systems & biomass heating to reduce energy costs. We followed the solar stirling plant guide to create electricity from sun.This is very critical for the success of the program because cost of electricity is high and there is an issue of electricity in remote villages of India. We have reduced our cost by 40%.
We prefer to grow tilapia as aquaponics fish because they are omnivorous, meaning we can feed them a wide variety of different foods. Tilpapia has high tolerance for a wide range of pH, temperature, and oxygen levels Here is a grate information on how to raise tilapia to maintain continuous fish supplies.
Here is a video on growing tilapia at home .
It also helps us move away from many of the problems with aquaculture that rely on capture fisheries, to produce fish meal into pellets which actually produce less fish than the fish they are taking to produce the food.
We are growing a wide variety of herbs and salad crops under energy efficient lighting. We are yielding around 40 plants in a square foot. Our experiment shows that this breakthrough technology has the potential to solve the world’s food shortage crisis.
So just to summarize, in terms of closing the loop and meeting our global challenges, what do we really need to do? It is estimated that we will need to produce 50% more food by 2030.
What do you think is the best way to do this?
The simple answer is that we will need to produce more with less. We know our resources are finite and we know our population is growing, so we need to produce more with less. In order to feed our growing population, I think we need to start producing food everywhere. We need to excite, inspire, and to engage the next generation to give them the skills possible to meet our global challenges.
Five Ph.D. students joined our group and they are helping us to examine the use of these blue prints in Georgia (US), Uganda & the Phillipines. In my next post, we will show you photos and videos of our aquaponics system in Uganda which is our prototype solution to provide food for starving african children.
We believe this is a life changing experiment becaue you will discover a way to grow food up to ten times faster, use 70% less energy, and absolutely revolutionize urban life.
We have calculated with 10% cost of the food bill cost, we can have a proven system to get rid of food crisis in rural area and can control prices of vegetables.
Click here to download our report on how to use Aquaponics PROFITABL to solve FOOD CRISIS problems in rural areas.
Here are some informative articles on various aspects of aquaponics system
In this article, we will talk about the actual steps to building aquaponic gardening and some sources to find the parts you need.
Aquaponics can be used under porches, greenhouses or anywhere to a person's liking. There are also support kits and chemicals to help clean fish tanks and garden beds. For those that are not familiar with this process, there is a step by step instruction in explaining how this process works and the benefits it can add to any household.
A home aquaponics system is great if you're interested in growing more plants in less space. It is becoming more and more popular with organic gardeners. It's gradually becoming a popular hobby. All aquaponics systems and aquaponics farming actually makes use of growing fish alongside a crop of plants (fruit and vegetables mainly) this is done in a totally natural way.
You can use aquaponics to create your own indoor garden.in your basement or spare bedroom. You will get flowers, fresh vegetables round the
year without using chemical fertilizers.
Here we have discussed three kinds of aquaponics design for gardening & landscaping.
Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture, and hydroponics…in other words,
growing plants in a container that runs off into a fish tank (where there are
fish). The water that is used to hydrate the plants comes from the fish tank,
and it is purified before being used for the plants. The fish byproducts work as
a form of fertilization and help to nourish the plants. Here we have discussed three kinds of aquaponics design for gardening & landscaping.
- A great resource on ‘Plant Nutrient Functions and Deficiency and Toxicity Symptoms’ by MaCauley. Jones and Jacobsen
Leave your comments on use of aquaponics, in our feeding the hungry program in developing sustainable organic farming techniques in urban & rural areas.
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