Friday, November 21, 2008
+ A Different Way of Farming...
Agriculture Goes Urban and High-Tech
POMONA, California (AP) -- "Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.
Hydroponics -- a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil -- could bring farming into cities.
The program run by the California State Polytechnic University agriculture professor is part of a growing effort to use hydroponics -- a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil -- to bring farming into cities, where consumers are concentrated.
Because hydroponic farming requires less water and less land than traditional field farming, Fujimoto and researchers-turned-growers in other U.S. cities see it as ideal to bring agriculture to apartment buildings, rooftops and vacant lots.
"The goal here is to look at growing food crops in small spaces," he said.
Long a niche technology existing in the shadow of conventional growing methods, hydroponics is getting a second look from university researchers and public health advocates."
(2008, November 21). Agriculture goes urban and high-tech. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from CNN.com/technology Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/21/urban.agriculture.
ap/index.html
POMONA, California (AP) -- "Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.
Hydroponics -- a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil -- could bring farming into cities.
The program run by the California State Polytechnic University agriculture professor is part of a growing effort to use hydroponics -- a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil -- to bring farming into cities, where consumers are concentrated.
Because hydroponic farming requires less water and less land than traditional field farming, Fujimoto and researchers-turned-growers in other U.S. cities see it as ideal to bring agriculture to apartment buildings, rooftops and vacant lots.
"The goal here is to look at growing food crops in small spaces," he said.
Long a niche technology existing in the shadow of conventional growing methods, hydroponics is getting a second look from university researchers and public health advocates."
(2008, November 21). Agriculture goes urban and high-tech. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from CNN.com/technology Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/21/urban.agriculture.
ap/index.html
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