Book Title: Contemporary Research Across Disciplines
Editors: Dr. R. Saravana Selvakumar and Mr. R. Venkatesan
ISBN: 978-81-978738-1-2
Chapter: 28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59646/crc28/278
Author: Mrs. P. Gangalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, G. Venkataswamy Naidu College, Kovilpatti. Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract
Aeroponics, a progressive land science, offers significant marketing potential through permissive, effective, and tenable crop results. This method of increasing plants in an air or mist atmosphere outside the use of soil or reducing water and mineral habits while enhancing development rates and crop yields. This review investigates the requests of aeroponics in marketing farming, highlighting conditions of ability preservation, scalability, and the result of excellent crops. It also analyses the challenges and future of mixing aeroponics into mainland practices. As the all-encompassing demand for meals increases and environmental concerns are severe, aeroponics presents an equitable answer for reasonable and adequate crop production, standing itself as a manager of budgetary farming from now on.
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