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Aquaponics: a purely organic fish-and-crops system

Aquaponics is a food-production system that combines aquaculture (breeding, raising and harvesting fish) and hydroponics. And while it is one of a number of economically successful agriculture systems employed around the world, commercial aquaponics is still in its infancy in South Africa.

According to Annemarie Bremner, who co-owns Kleinskuur Aquaponics near Pretoria with her husband Colin, aquaponics is a highly sustainable farming method as it uses a selfcontained ecosystem that mirrors nature.

“Aquaponics differs from hydroponics in that it doesn’t need the addition of chemical nutrients for the plants, as waste from the fish provides the plants with nutrients,” she explains.

She points out that there

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