I wasn’t able to attend the breakout discussions about research. Would anyone be able to briefly summarize the takeaways here? If this thread can generate a conversation, even better!
Cheers,
Sean
P.S. Kudos to the organizers for a stimulating event, as always!
Paul Brown said that he has a list of ideas generated through a survey he ran. Bria and Jon are working on pulling together the slide decks and recordings of the presentations to post on the Aquaponics Association website, so that list you are requesting should be coming soon.
I’m a bit biased but i would love to see lactobacillus fleshed out more research wise along with some challenge trials with E.coli and others i truly believe its the future of food safety for aquaponics along with IMO research in aquaponics have the best value in terms of over head costs and returns on dollars spent. I think there has traditionally been a biased towards design based solutions while ignoring the microbes which have far more financial potential for monetization.
Additional species combinations for both fresh- and salt/brackish water
Nutrient inputs and their impacts on nutritional quality of products
Continued improvement in recycling components, additional products from aquaponic systems, and improving sustainability. - More refined/customized ‘Economic modelings and sensitivity analysis
Incorporation of complementary cost-effective circular economy concepts
‘Low-tech’ systems.
Quality of the plant products in terms of nutrition
Impact of coupled aquaponics on off flavor phenomenon observed in RAS systems
Low tech aquaponics VS high tech aquaponics
Aquaponics made in flow through/outside/village-level
I do low tech. It’s basically a gravel filter and I’m growing spinach in that filter. I clean out the gravel once in 3 months - dry out that potty and refill my dutch buckets once a week.
I don’t have any sensor and I do water tests when my plants tell me something is not right.
I would say this is low tech. I would love to chat with any HighTech aquaponics farm please. There’s so much to learn. Thank you.
I haven’t grown rice in this rock filter though. That I grew in DWC - and I remember the water I was losing everyday was astonishing. It was later I read about the research to make stoma cells smaller for rice plants !