Higher yields – more harvest cycles
“You get a much higher yield per acre than a traditional farm, which needs about six acres for every one acre of Aquaponics production.” Three to twelve times more crop rotations compared to agriculture on land.
Aquaponics uses about 90% less land and water than soil agriculture but potentially could generate three to four times more food, according to a report from Industry ARC, a Hamilton, N.Y., consulting and research company. It takes 60 days to grow a full-grown head of lettuce in soil and only 36 days in Aquaponics.
Intelligent design allows for the perpetual growing of food and daily harvesting, the whole year around.
What can be grown in an Aquaponics system?
100 % chemical free
Operating an Aquaponics system requires the absolute prohibition of chemicals. The use of any pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers is devastating for any aquaponics system because contaminating the fish with any of these products will result in their death.
Decontamination of the complete system would be required if operations are to resume in the same system. The complete water supply and fish population would need to be replaced and the system flushed thoroughly.
Problems with organic certification: Once you are certified, the inspector rarely stops by to check if you are truly practicing organic methods.
There is currently more organic produce being sold, than actually is being grown. Which means some produce labeled as organic is not. The only way to combat this is to know the farm you are buying from.
There is no cheating with aquaponics because one can’t use chemical pesticides of any kind or the fish would die, period.
Aquaponics uses 90% less water as compared to traditional farming. Water and nutrients are recycled in a closed-loop fashion which conserves water.
Aquaponics systems use fertilizer from cold-blooded fish which do not carry the E. coli or Salmonella, unlike fertilizers from warm-blooded animals.
No chemical preservatives, synthetic or artificial coloring, chemical sweeteners or flavorings, no refinement or processing, no use of derivatives.
Fish are the fastest converter of plant protein to animal protein. Fish have no growth hormones, no mercury, no antibiotics, No P.C.B.s. Plants contain no antibiotics.