UH Manoa agriculture students are going to Washington.
Later this month, the students from the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources will be setting up an aquaponics system on the national mall as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Aquaponics uses only five percent of the water normally needed to grow produce and plants by recycling the water through a fish tank.Most of our energy, most of our food is imported. And we’re running out of places to grow food. And that’s why this work is being done because we don’t require soil." Said Clyde Tamaru of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
Leina’ala Bright, a graduate student at Hawai’inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge said that "you can use aquaponics in the city, in the country you could use it, as long as you have some sun."
"It costs about three hundred dollars to set up a small system.
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