Aquaponics- a greenhouse for innovative food production

The challenge of increasing food production while minimizing environmental impact may be solved by using innovative production techniques such as aquaponics.

Soils are loosing nutrients at an alarming rate, with nutrients leaching and washing into lakes and seas. Peckas Naturodlingar has invested in an industry that combines tomato cultivation with fish rearing in a closed system. The nutritious water from the fish flows down to the tomatoes, which absorb it. After that, the clean water is returned to the fish. This operation ensures that nutrients and water are used as efficiently as possible and that the system produces no waste.

This project report showcases how Aquaponics could have a crucial role in supplying the market with precisely this kind of food, but it needs support to become established. Aquaponics is a system of farming aqueous animals and plants together. Additionally, here are a few project goals set in place by Peckas odlingar AB: 

• Produce sustainable food like salmon and tomatoes close to consumers; 

• Grow and expand the consumption of aquaponics produce across Sweden; 

• Produce 20 tonnes of fish and 200 tonnes of tomatoes per year; 

• Spread knowledge about aquaponics by providing a good example and by organizing seminars and workshops on the theme, and 

• Prove that it is possible to raise fish on land with zero emissions.
  
  

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