Estratégias de usos de águas salobras no cultivo de hortaliças folhosas em sistema hidropônico NFT

Abstract

The waters are common in brackish groundwater resources in semiarid regions, however the use of groundwater in agriculture requires sufficient technology and likely to producers so they can produce with high yields and without the environmental damage that normally opposed to conventional cultivation. The hydroponics can be conducive to intensive production based on small areas, because in the efficiency of water use is admittedly higher than the ground because it makes minimal evaporative loss. Furthermore, hydroponics could increase the tolerance of crops to salinity. This would allow the use of brackish water and, as an extra benefit, would increase the environmental protection. Thus, the accumulated salts at the end of the production process can easily be driven out of the system. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of brackish water in hydroponic cultivation of vegetables three strategies for use. Were assembled in a green house 72 experimental units to simulate the NFT hydroponics (a technique of laminar flow of nutrients). We evaluated five levels of salinity were made with NaCl, and more control without NaCl. The results demonstrated that it is possible to use brackish water to grow vegetables in the replacement of evapotranspiration occur without loss in production. The use of brackish water in the preparation of the nutrient solution reduced the production of vegetables decreased linearly.