Aquaponic farming is a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. Like the latter, it involves growing plants in a mostly soilless medium where nutrients are administered via a water pump
Fish eat and produce waste (ammonia); The bacterium breaks down the ammonia into nitrates; A pump carries nutrient-rich water to grow beds; Plants in grow beds take up nitrogen via the roots Plants clean water of nutrients Water returned to fish tank. The Aquaponic system is essentially a controllable continuous cycle in a natural aquatic ecosystem making it completely organic and also one of the most sustainable and cost-effective farming systems
