Hydroponics vs Aquaponics - What's the difference?
hydroponics | aquaponics |
the cultivation of plants in a nutrient solution rather than in the soil
A sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water being used as nutrition for the plants.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 5, author=Elizabeth Royte, title=Street Farmer, work=New York Times
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As nouns the difference between hydroponics and aquaponics
is that hydroponics is the cultivation of plants in a nutrient solution rather than in the soil while aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water being used as nutrition for the plants.hydroponics
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(wikipedia hydroponics)Noun
(-)aquaponics
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(-) (wikipedia aquaponics)citation