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CULTURE AQUAPONIQUE [1 record]

Record 1 2024-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish, snails or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants, where nitrifying bacteria convert ammonia into nitrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Association, dans un même lieu, d'un élevage de poissons ou de crustacés et d'une culture hydroponique, qui permet des échanges à bénéfices réciproques.

OBS

Dans l'aquaponie, les plantes purifient l'eau des bassins séparés où sont parqués poissons et crustacés, tandis que ces derniers apportent, par leurs déjections, les fertilisants nécessaires aux plantes.

OBS

aquaponie; aquaculture hydroponique : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 12 septembre 2023.

Spanish

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