[New agricultural expense] Eco-friendly vegetables that are grown with fish waste...Aquaponics

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It is time for 'new agricultural business' and 'new agricultural expenses' to deliver good examples of making new agricultural technology or healthy food.

Today is the story of Aquaponics Smart Farm, which raises fish and grows vegetables with the excrement.

Reporter Oh Jum-gon covered it.

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Cold weather that just goes over to winter as the temperature suddenly drops.

However, in the smart farm, romaine lettuce and xandra, which are representative European vegetables, are growing deliciously.It is hydroponic cultivation in which vegetables are grown with water instead of

, which is quite different from ordinary hydroponic cultivation.

[Lee Ah-reum / Aquaponics Farm Representative: Common hydroponics uses chemical fertilizers to grow plants, but Aquaponics uses fish fish fish to grow plants.]

There are four fish tanks inside the farm.

More than 1,000 scented fish and goldfish are raised here, and the excrement of this fish becomes a nutrient for vegetables.

[Lee Ah-reum / Aquaponics Farm CEO: Fish excrement is converted to nitrite and nitric acid. So useful microorganisms and nutrients are supplied to plants. And purified water is a natural circulation farming method that returns to the fish tank.]

It is recognized as an agricultural method that is free from water shortage and environmental pollution as well as eco-friendly.

Although vegetables are grown in this way, scented fish in tanks are sold for food and goldfish for ornamental purposes. In short, you can eat pheasants and eggs, and it's like two birds with one stone.

In order to promote this farming method, Yangsan Station has the first "Aquaponics Vertical Farm" in Korea.

[Lee Jung-hwa/Odeong-dong, Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam (Consumer): First of all, it's really good because it's pesticide-free, so I think it's healthy, and when I tried it, it was crisp and really delicious. That's why I'm here again today.]

European vegetables produced in this way are about 10,000 tons per year.

[Lee Da-yea / Researcher of the Korea Agricultural Technology Promotion Agency: It is a company that is realizing digital agriculture using advanced ICT and information and communication technology]

In addition, amid extreme climate change, aquaponics of low-carbon farming methods is attracting attention not only from the commercial aspect but also from the urban healing agriculture aspect.

I'm Ojeomgon of YTN.