HYDROPONIC AND AQUAPONIC PRODUCTION OF SWEET BASIL (Ocimum basilicum) AND GIANT RIVER PRAWN (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)
In order to promote sustainable aquaculture in production units and to take care of the water resource is needed to integrate biotechnology tools to the activity, as is the aquaponics. In the present study we evaluated the production efficiency of a crop of basil (Ocimum basilicum) in a hydroponic s...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN |
| Repositorio: | Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.revista.ccba.uady.mx:article/1745 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/1745 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sustainable; aquaponic; agroecosystems; sweet basil; prawn; intensive culture. acuicultura; hidroponÃa Sustentabilidad; acuaponia; albahaca; langostino, cultivo intensivo. |
| Sumario: | In order to promote sustainable aquaculture in production units and to take care of the water resource is needed to integrate biotechnology tools to the activity, as is the aquaponics. In the present study we evaluated the production efficiency of a crop of basil (Ocimum basilicum) in a hydroponic system (SH) vs. acuaponic system (SA) associated with the semi-intensive culture of Malaysian prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii). The production of basil was conducted in two geomembrane plastic rectangular tanks (4.0 m long x 0.80 m wide and 0.30 m high), divided into two sections: in the first section setting of the seedlings were done in a substrate of silica sand and volcanic rock , whereas in the second were seeded into plastic containers using the same substrate. SH plants got their nutrients from the metabolites derived from the cultivation of 800 postlarval shrimp in two circular tanks of 25 m3 (16 organisms m-2) (Pond 1: initial weight 0.13 g, Pond 2: 2.19 g); while in the SH was used a commercial nutrient solution (1.5 g L). The results indicate that SH plants initially had higher survival (90%), height and number of leaves per plant (p |
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