"HYDROPONIC CROPS"

Several techniques have by now been developed to grow vegetables and flowering plants out of their natural substrate. Advantages of this agricultural practice are the following:

• improvement of crop yields, both in quality and quantity (greater crop earliness, excellent organoleptic features)
• continuity of production, with no signs of substrate exhaustion
• greater control of phytosanitary conditions.

Hydropony methods that can be adopted are the following:

• real hydropony
  by liquid and aired substrate (water colture)
  by solid and inert substrate (sand colture, gravel colture)
• semi-hydropony in active substrate
• air-hydropony with no substrate and providing nutritive solutions directly to crop roots.

Whichever method you use, successful results are strongly linked to the use of suitable "nutritive solutions" for a balanced and correct nutrition of crops in their different phenological stages and in different periods. In fact, this is indispensable to avoid dangerous surplus or antagonisms and to ensure, at the same time, conductivity values suitable for the solution itself.

For years, AGROFILL® has been supplying the leading companies in this field with specific formulations studied for every single case and in accordance with their different needs.

"IDROFILL" line

IDROFILL formulations are AGROFILL® "hydroponic fertilisers", composed of the purest, low-conductivity salts. The well-balanced ion and cation ratios among the elements make it possible to avoid phenomena of toxicity to plants roots and undesired sedimentations. Dosage varies according to the type of crop, to the season course and to the phenological stage.

AGROFILL® technical service also offers its timely assistance through proper means of analytic research which make it possible to find the best element mixture in the nutritive solution, based on the physico-chemical characteristics of the water used.

HYDROPONIC CROPS