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Comments on other issues: Army members harvest hydroponic vegetables
Intensive farming: A worker examines vegetables that have been cultivated using a hydroponic system in Baturan village, Karang Anyar, Central Java, on Sept
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Intensive farming: A worker examines vegetables that have been cultivated using a hydroponic system in Baturan village, Karang Anyar, Central Java, on Sept. 10, 2015. The hydroponic cultivation has been introduced in urban areas.(JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi) (JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
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span class="inline inline-center">Intensive farming: A worker examines vegetables that have been cultivated using a hydroponic system in Baturan village, Karang Anyar, Central Java, on Sept. 10, 2015. The hydroponic cultivation has been introduced in urban areas.(JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
Jan. 16, p9
Urban farming by residents at the Army's land transportation battalion compound in Senen, Central Jakarta, has produced dozens of kilograms of vegetables. Central Jakarta Fisheries, Agriculture and Food Security Agency spokesperson, Muljadi, said on Friday that the residents had used a 280-square-meter plot of land to grow various types of vegetables like lettuce, red spinach, mustard and bok choy, using the hydroponic method.
He added that the administration was now harvesting the vegetables. The harvest result of each vegetable type, according to Muljadi, could be expected to reach an approximate average of 30 kilograms.
Your comments:
Well, the Army could grow lots of vegetable using the hydroponic method in stagnant ditches or river tributaries, all over Indonesia, from Sabang to Merauke.
AnimisticGod
His agency was planning to acquire a quality assurance certificate for the vegetables so that it could distribute them to supermarkets for the 30 kilogram harvest! Isn't that going overboard for 30 kg of veggies?
How about building some bridges to the 3,000 people stranded in Riau instead of playing gardener in a sandbox! What a waste of time and money and to top it off, it was a whole battalion! Not a squad or platoon, but over 800 men playing in a 280-square-meter plot!
Willi
I'd like to know what they call hydroponic gardening? So, somehow, the military is now taking credit for this?
Charles Jarret
