Food Production In Nepal

There are many innovation that are being used in developed countries to provide food for city dwellers without sufficient farming land. The methods that are being is applied are called Hydroponics, Aeroponics, and Acqua-Culture. In hydropincs system food are grown in water solution rather then soil. The water solution has all the ingridient that a soil would have, and all one has to do is supply sufficient amont to the plant being grown but even that can be monitored by an electrical pump. Most of the tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, strawberry, egg plant, among other things (which are too many to list) are grown yearly in US with a market of about 4 billion dollars.

Aeroponics is a method of growing plants and herbs by hanging the plant in the air and spraying it with a solution with all the ingrident it needs. This method of food production is used by NASAfor astronauts when they are going to outer space.

Aqua-Culture is another one of the technique used for food production. In this method one would grow a fresh water fish (Taplia) along with plants together. This method have mutual relationship for both the fish and the plant. When you grow a fish in the tank, one know that it will have to clean its tank every so often. But in aqua-culture the tank waste in the tank are pushed out to the plant. The fish waste is plants food and the plant takes in all the waste and provides clean water to the fish. In this way they are helping each other.

These three method of food production would be great for food production in Nepal. This method would work very well in Nepal becuase its hill are full of water. Instead of water being contained within an area in Nepal and causing floods we can divert some of the water into a nearby village and used it for food production using one of the method I mention above. I really did my research regaurding this and it is a best solution for the district with food scarcity.

Another good thing about this method is it can be produce food year around, granted it takes longer to produce food in winter then in summer. However the time is only matter of few days versus the 6 months wait for mansoon.