Engineer Uses Aquaponics On Terrace to Harvest 500 Kg Veggies/Month; Teaches How to Start
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GUJARATORGANIC FARMING
Engineer Uses Aquaponics On Terrace to Harvest 500 Kg Veggies/Month; Teaches How to Start
By Shivani Gupta
July 18, 2023
Engineer Uses Aquaponics On Terrace to Harvest 500 Kg Veggies/Month; Teaches How to Start
Vadodara-resident Shashank Chaubey quit his comfortable job to grow vegetables using aquaponics farming. Having started with zero farming experience, today he grows 2,500 varieties of plants on a 2,000 sq ft commercial terrace farm and helps other people do the same.
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Shashank Dubey was comfortable in his corporate job in Delhi. One day, he read an article about vegetables grown on the floodplain of the Yamuna river and the potential health risks associated with eating them. This news troubled him.
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“These vegetables are grown in polluted environments and loaded with heavy metals. People who consume them get fatal diseases, such as cancer,” the 33-year-old tells The Better India.
“Apart from that, urban residents are so dependent on packaged and deep-fried foods, which is harmful to health. The quality of the food that we consume matters. So I thought I should grow my own vegetables,” he adds.
After working for nearly a decade as an electronics and communications engineer, Shashank quit his job in 2018 and moved to Vadodara. Soon after, he ventured into growing his own food. But likecopied link icon
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Engineer Uses Aquaponics On Terrace to Harvest 500 Kg Veggies/Month; Teaches How to Start
By Shivani Gupta
July 18, 2023
Engineer Uses Aquaponics On Terrace to Harvest 500 Kg Veggies/Month; Teaches How to Start
Vadodara-resident Shashank Chaubey quit his comfortable job to grow vegetables using aquaponics farming. Having started with zero farming experience, today he grows 2,500 varieties of plants on a 2,000 sq ft commercial terrace farm and helps other people do the same.
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Shashank Dubey was comfortable in his corporate job in Delhi. One day, he read an article about vegetables grown on the floodplain of the Yamuna river and the potential health risks associated with eating them. This news troubled him.
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“These vegetables are grown in polluted environments and loaded with heavy metals. People who consume them get fatal diseases, such as cancer,” the 33-year-old tells The Better India.
“Apart from that, urban residents are so dependent on packaged and deep-fried foods, which is harmful to health. The quality of the food that we consume matters. So I thought I should grow my own vegetables,” he adds.
After working for nearly a decade as an electronics and communications engineer, Shashank quit his job in 2018 and moved to Vadodara. Soon after, he ventured into growing his own food. But like a majority of urban residents, space was a constraint for him. a majority of urban residents, space was a constraint for him.
The major difference between hydroponic and aquaponic setup is the media used to provide nutrients to the soil. It has a similar setup of hydroponics but with an additional fish tank to breed fish. The fish excreta is decomposed by bacteria into nitrate which is an ideal fertiliser for plants. It is like imitating the river ecology. Through this fish tank, water is regulated throughout small tanks that hold plants,” says Shashank, who has upcycled drums and cans to use as fish tanks.
Other than nitrates produced by fish waste, Shashank adds iron nails, lime and egg shells to boost iron and calcium nutrients in the media.
“The biggest advantage of this method is that along with growing food without soil in less space, it is also organic. Also, there is no need to fertilise the plants individually,” says Shashank.
Interestingly, aquaponics farming saves 80 percent of the water required in a conventional farming setup, he informs. “Farmers can also harvest additional income by breeding and selling edible fish other than vegetables,” h
e says
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