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Recent development in agricultural techniques has led to an increase in yield and has proven to be more environmentally friendly in their applications. With the continuous increase in the world population, food demand is expected to increase simultaneously and a way to meet such immense demand is to intensify contemporary agricultural measures for ensuring food availability and security, which is also one of the aims of sustainable development goals (SDG)-2—zero hunger of United Nations. This paper discusses the design of hydroponics; a modern, clean and environmentally friendly technique for growing vegetables in an appropriately regulated environment without soil and natural sunlight but with the aid of temperature sensors, actuators, artificial lighting systems, nutrient solutions, and heating/cooling systems for maintaining water and air temperatures using National Instrument (NI) LabVIEW software package. Hydroponics as a contemporary agricultural technique for growing leafy vegetables has proven successful in its implementation and guarantees all-year production regardless of environmental or climatic conditions. The automation of the entire growth process in the system makes it possible for the procedures to be carried out effectively with little or no human interference. The problem of scarcity and unavailability of rare vegetable varieties with high demand can be reduced to its barest minimum with the implementation of the automated system.
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Akinmeji, A., Misra, S., Agrawal, A., Adewumi, A., Maskeliunas, R., Damasevicius, R. (2022). A Cost-Effective Design for a Hydroponics Farm. In: Mandal, J.K., Buyya, R., De, D. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1406. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5207-3_67
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