Is soilless culture the future trend of precision farming?

The main purpose of modern soilless culture is to improve the controllability of cultivation environment, prevent food pollution, and promote ecological agriculture and high-end agriculture.

Soilless cultivation refers to a planting mode that does not use soil, but uses crop cultivation medium or nutrient solution as the growth environment for plant roots! There are many forms, including substrate culture (coconut bran, turf, vermiculite, perlite) and nutrient solution culture (hydroponics, aeroponics). It is a popular cultivation mode at present, but now it is mostly suitable for cultivating vegetables or flowers, and the cultivation of field crops is not common!

Want to know whether soilless cultivation can become the future trend of precision farming agriculture, today we will discuss it!

Advantages of soilless culture:

The advantages of soilless cultivation: first, the environment is completely controllable, as long as the input cost is willing to control all the environmental factors in the life cycle of a plant.

The second is to increase the cultivation density, a 400 square meters greenhouse, soil cultivation of 3,000 strawberries is already high-density, and the use of soilless cultivation, three-dimensional planting, in the case of full sunlight, you can plant more than 10,000 trees is not a problem.

Third, the yield is increased, the environment is controllable, and the plants can be kept in the best growth state forever.

Since there are so many advantages of soilless cultivation, why is it still not mainstream? Because soilless cultivation even if the current cost is not high, but compared to the field is still high cost! And soilless cultivation requires relatively strong technology, but most farmer friends have not mastered this technology, so they can not be promoted!

However, with the development of science and technology and the progress of society, the knowledge and technology of farmers are also constantly advancing, soilless cultivation will eventually become the mainstream!