Hydroponics GAT An Introduction To Hydroponic Gardening | Page 7

 Lower nutrition costs. Since you can be able to control the amount
of nutrients supplied to the plants, you can avoid wastage. This
enables you to lower your nutrition costs and therefore cut down
on the input and operational costs of your farming business.
 You can avoid pests and diseases because hydroponic containers
are more mobile. Incase there is a pest infestation; you can move
your plants into a greenhouse where you can use pesticides to kill
off the insects and pests. This can reduce crop wastage and
damage due to pests.
 Lastly, the crops have no competition with pests. This enables
them to enjoy all the nutrients available.
 Disadvantages
 You need to be highly skilled to operate them
 High amount of capital in needed to establish a hydroponic farm