Abstract
Traditionally, crops are cultivated in soil-based open field systems. Seasonality, environmental degradation, urbanization, and food security issues have replaced open-field systems with modern plant production systems. Soilless culture is one of the modern plant production systems, which involves much higher use of available resources. The presented study provides information about currently accessible soilless systems and discussed the aeroponic system. Compared to other soilless systems, aeroponic reduce water usage through continuous water circulation. However, the aeroponic is not entirely implemented among local farmers, and very few farmers have adopted the system due to the lack of research and technical information available in the literature. Therefore, this study was planned to provide information about the development and maintenance tasks required for practicing the aeroponic system. This study could provide knowledge to the researchers, farmers, and those people interested in practicing the aeroponic system. Keywords: aeroponic, food security, hydroponic, soilless culture, substrate culture DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20201301.5156 Citation: Lakhiar I A, Gao J M, Syed T N, Chandio F A, Tunio M H, Ahmad F, et al. Overview of the aeroponic agriculture – An emerging technology for global food security. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2020; 13(1): 1–10.
Highlights
In the future, the world population will deal with several difficulties, problems, and issues that can have adverse impacts on the overall future food production (FFP) and food security[1,2,3]
Shamshiri et al.[16,17] stated that FFP could exemplify by adopting modern farming techniques such as the implementation of the greenhouse plant cultivation (GPC) and agricultural robotics technologies (ART) in traditional agriculture
This study concluded that the adoption of modern farming techniques in traditional agriculture could be an alternative solution to deal with the increasing food security
Summary
The world population will deal with several difficulties, problems, and issues that can have adverse impacts on the overall future food production (FFP) and food security[1,2,3]. A study by Chang et al.[23] revealed that GPC is one of the world’s most significant agricultural productions system due to its high economic benefits At present, it had been in rapid development in both developed and developing countries of the world for the cultivation of fruits and vegetable plants[24,25,26,27]. The adoption of GPC could provide a flexible solution for high quality and sustainable year-round plant production, in regions with adverse climate conditions or limited land and resources with increased productivity It is among the most intensive agricultural systems, requiring high inputs from growers generally greater than growing in the open field.
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