Hydroponics: The future of farming

Pradip Burman, the grandson of S.K Burman, is a visionary leader and a crusader of sustainability with an aim to lead this world towards a brighter future. A few years back, he founded Alternative Green Energy Solution (AGES), a company dedicated solely to provide Hydroponic Green Feed throughout the year so that our country can dream about a sustainable future.

The science of soilless gardening involves growing plants in mineral-rich water instead of the good old soil! Have you stopped yourself from growing plants because of space issues at home? If that is the case hydroponics is the perfect solution for you.

Through hydroponics, the physiological requirements of plants can be met without the use of soil or natural sunlight. Hydroponics techniques have proven very useful and efficient for producing food for livestock. Some advantages of hydroponics are as follows:

• It controls plant nutrition therefore increasing production
• Stable harvests of high-quality fresh feeds available all year and can be produced on an industrial scale
• The food that is available is free from undesirable materials such as weeds, insects, dust, insecticides, germicides, carcinogens and radioactive substances.
• Plants will grow bigger and faster because they will not have to work as hard to obtain nutrients. Even a small root system will provide the plant exactly what it needs, so the plant will focus more on growing upstairs instead of expanding the root system downstairs.

Hydroponics culture is probably the most intensive method of crop production in today’s agricultural industry. With the possibility of adjusting air and room temperature, light, water, plant nutrition, and adverse climate, hydroponics agriculture can be made highly productive, conservative of water and land and protective of the environment. Hydroponics is believed to be the future of farming in urban cities.

Nature has indeed gone through a paradigm shift because of human ignorance and irresponsible behaviour. Even though we are responsible for the degraded environment, it’s never too late to reverse the damage. That’s what Mr. Pradip Burman strives for — a healthy and a clean environment for a sustainable future. His love for the environment is reflected in his actions as he strives to build a world closer to nature.