Hydroponic Garlic Production: An Overview

Abstract


 Introduction: Garlic is an important crop growing all around the globe for its nutritional and medicinal purpose. Due to climate change soil production of garlic is affected and thus lower in yield. For improving the yield and increasing the quality of vegetables a new technique was developed is called hydroponic technology.
 Review results: In hydroponic, garlic can be produced on condition basis by providing proper nutrition and growth environment including air, light, soilless mediums, and water requirements. Methods like deep water culture, nutrient film technique, drip irrigation, bubble ponics are very common under different soilless mediums which includes organic, inorganic and synthetic. A detailed overview on production technology, nutrition, medium and hydroponic techniques which are discussed in details are given below in this review.

Construction and evaluation of a hydroponic system for cultivation of tomato

“…Growing plants in a hydroponic system has several advantages, including the reduction of water usage, the minimum labor required to grow organic crops in an indoor system, the minimum space required and the ability to grow food at any place [10]. In aggregate-based hydroponic systems like drip-irrigated or flood-and-drain methods, soilless growth material is employed [11]. The use of soilless growing media in hydroponic systems can boost crop yields when compared to conventional soil-based cultivation since quantities of water, nutrient and oxygen transfer are greater and can be simply optimized [12].…”