Aquaponics Holds Promise for Food Production

As areas to farm become harder to find, new and unique ways of producing food are being found.

Aquaponics is one such way and holds promise because of its diversity and small-scale operations that make it more mobile.

Bob Rode with Purdue University Extension says you need water, containers for fish and piping to water plants.

“You’re going to be circulating that water through. The water coming back to that fish tank hopefully has been through a number of filters on the fish side, the aquaponics, the plants taking out the nutrients and then comes back to those fish in a cleaned up state.”

The system works as the fish produce nitrate waste which is then filtered into the water and to the plants as food which use the nitrogen and send the clean water back to the fish.