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When was hydroponics invented?


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Hydroponics:

  1. Hydroponics is the process in which the plants are grown without soil in the presence of water, gravel, etc.,
  2. In 1937, William Frederick Gericke gave the reference to hydroponics.
  3. When working at Berkeley, University of California, he started to popularize the idea of growing plants in a solution of water and nutrients rather than soil.

Hence, hydroponics was invented in 1937.


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