Glasnik Zaštite Bilja, Vol. 34 No. 6, 2011.
Professional paper
Hydroponic vegetable growing
Mara Bogović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1512-9419
; rvatska poljoprivredna komora, JPSS Područni odjel Varaždin
Abstract
The increase in market demand for off – season vegetables has affected the expansion of hydroponic production in Croatia too. In order to ensure a continuous vegetable production all year long, our local producers have started to introduce a hydroponic vegetable growing. It is known that hydroponic production started to be applied in conditions where there was no enough farmland, or farmland was exhausted and not fertile enough or it was contaminated and inappropriate for vegetable growing. The word hydroponics literally means “working water“, but in practice it represents a method of plant growing without substrates or with an inert substrate which was added all the necessary nutrients. Vegetable production without the soil aimed at avoiding the place of appearing of diseases and weed growth and to achieve a precise control of plant nutrition. The main goal of hydroponic technology is to ensure a necessary quantity of nutrients and optimum microclimatic conditions to each plant species in a certain growth stage in order to achieve maximum yield.
Keywords
vegetables; hydroponic production; nutrients; yield
Hrčak ID:
163122
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2011.
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