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The project requires minimum space but can also take a large space depending space availability.
A typical domestic system can be established on a 24 feet by 50 feet space.
Aquaponicpoultry culture creates a symbiotic relationship between fish, chicken and plants. Chicken are easy to maintain. However, when dealing with specific chicken breeds such as layers or broilers much emphasis must be put on the living conditions. Domestic chicken breeds are easy to maintain since they rely of domestic food waste. The fish moreover will survive on the chicken droppings which are rich in proteins carbohydrates and other minerals. The chicken will eat some of the plants grown and they provide the fertilizer for the plants. The fish will provide ammonia fertilizer to the plant as the excrete ammonia rich waste.
The water in a fish tank is high in nutrients and requires filtering. Instead of using a traditional filter, we pump the water into a specially built vegetable garden that feeds and waters the plants.
In turn, the vegetable plants obtain the nutrients they need from the water, and return the filtered clean water to the fish tank. A tap will be put to provide iron and nutrient enriched water to a water trough to the chicken. The water will be filtered by the gravel and flow back into the fish tank as clean oxygenated rich water. Growing in this nutrient rich water the vegetables experience accelerated growth rates, are stronger and healthier and use about 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in soil.
This is what to note:
• The chicken feed on domestic waste from leftover food. They ingest the food and excrete. The excreted waste drops into the fish tank.
• The fish feed on the chicken waste which is rich in nutrients.
• Part of the chicken droppings gets into to the vegetable bed which acts as organic fertilizer.
The fish after ingesting excrete. The water carrying feces from fish is a source of organic fertilizer that allows plants in the system to grow well; hydroponics is viewed as a method of biofiltration that facilitates intensive re circulating aquaculture;
In a green house concept, the chickens will enjoy the heat of the greenhouse and the chickens themselves will help heat the greenhouse;
The chickens and plants have mutually beneficial gas requirements (chickens inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide; whilst most of the time, plants absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen), so keeping the two organisms together suits both of them down to the ground.
Aquaponic is seen as a method to introduce organic hydroponically-grown products into the market place, because the only fertility introduction is feed, and all of the nutrients pass through a biological process;
Food-producing greenhouses, yielding two products from one production unit, are naturally appealing for niche marketing and green labeling;
in arid regions where water is scarce, aquaponics is an appropriate technology that allows food production with re-used water;
Aquaponicpoultry culture is a working model of sustainable food production in which plant and animal systems are integrated, and the recycling of nutrients and water filtration are linked; improving efficiency in the use of water, especially in areas with a limited supply of water.
A typical domestic system can be established on a 24 feet by 50 feet space.
Aquaponicpoultry culture creates a symbiotic relationship between fish, chicken and plants. Chicken are easy to maintain. However, when dealing with specific chicken breeds such as layers or broilers much emphasis must be put on the living conditions. Domestic chicken breeds are easy to maintain since they rely of domestic food waste. The fish moreover will survive on the chicken droppings which are rich in proteins carbohydrates and other minerals. The chicken will eat some of the plants grown and they provide the fertilizer for the plants. The fish will provide ammonia fertilizer to the plant as the excrete ammonia rich waste.
The water in a fish tank is high in nutrients and requires filtering. Instead of using a traditional filter, we pump the water into a specially built vegetable garden that feeds and waters the plants.
In turn, the vegetable plants obtain the nutrients they need from the water, and return the filtered clean water to the fish tank. A tap will be put to provide iron and nutrient enriched water to a water trough to the chicken. The water will be filtered by the gravel and flow back into the fish tank as clean oxygenated rich water. Growing in this nutrient rich water the vegetables experience accelerated growth rates, are stronger and healthier and use about 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in soil.
This is what to note:
• The chicken feed on domestic waste from leftover food. They ingest the food and excrete. The excreted waste drops into the fish tank.
• The fish feed on the chicken waste which is rich in nutrients.
• Part of the chicken droppings gets into to the vegetable bed which acts as organic fertilizer.
The fish after ingesting excrete. The water carrying feces from fish is a source of organic fertilizer that allows plants in the system to grow well; hydroponics is viewed as a method of biofiltration that facilitates intensive re circulating aquaculture;
In a green house concept, the chickens will enjoy the heat of the greenhouse and the chickens themselves will help heat the greenhouse;
The chickens and plants have mutually beneficial gas requirements (chickens inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide; whilst most of the time, plants absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen), so keeping the two organisms together suits both of them down to the ground.
Aquaponic is seen as a method to introduce organic hydroponically-grown products into the market place, because the only fertility introduction is feed, and all of the nutrients pass through a biological process;
Food-producing greenhouses, yielding two products from one production unit, are naturally appealing for niche marketing and green labeling;
in arid regions where water is scarce, aquaponics is an appropriate technology that allows food production with re-used water;
Aquaponicpoultry culture is a working model of sustainable food production in which plant and animal systems are integrated, and the recycling of nutrients and water filtration are linked; improving efficiency in the use of water, especially in areas with a limited supply of water.
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