21/05/2024
Banjarmasin – The Biology Education Study Program (PS) of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Lambung Mangkurat University (ULM) held a Horticultural Plant Entrepreneurship Debriefing Training activity for Biology Education PS students. This activity was held at the Biology Education PS Laboratory on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 09.00-12.00 WITA. The event was opened by the Deputy Dean for Student Affairs and Alumni, Ali Rachman and attended by lecturers and students of PS Biology Education. The speakers for this activity were hydroponic entrepreneur, Eka Damayanti, and Abdul Ihsan, a Kian Santang mushroom farmer.
In her presentation, Eka Damayanti explained that hydroponics is a method of cultivating plants without using soil media, but utilizing water / nutritious mineral solutions needed by plants. There are several types of hydroponic systems, including the wick system (static water), which is a type of hydroponics that connects the nutrient solution with the planting medium using a wick. Usually, the wick used is a rope, wax wick, or cotton thread; the floating raft system is a technique in plant cultivation by planting plants in sterofoam holes that float on the surface of the nutrient solution in a reservoir; the DFT system (Deep Flow Technique), this system is a stagnant water mode in PVC pipes or gully, the water is still flowed through the nutrient reservoir through a water pump that is flowed in each gully, the water flowed does not flow directly, but stagnates; nFT Hydroponic system is a hydroponic technique in which plant roots grow in a shallow, circulating nutrient layer so that plants can get enough water, nutrients and oxygen; DBS (Dutch Buckets) system is a hydroponic technique that emphasizes water and nutrients that are circulated continuously over a period of time; and Drip-Irrigation system, also known as drip irrigation or micro-irrigation or local irrigation, is an irrigation method that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly onto plant roots, either onto the soil surface or directly into the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubes and emitters. (admin)