Design and development of low cost vertical farming

Abstract

Modernize agricultural activity is a one method that can increase productivity agricultural production. Fertigation method is a good alternative method and has the ability for progressive. Fertigation combines the two main factors of supplying water and plant nutrients that are essential for plant growth. Place for crop and type of media is an alternative to overcome the problem cultivation. Planting pot is design to cultivate vegetables, herbs and flower. Any variety planting pot such as plastic and ceramics can be used to cultivate the vegetable. This project is design and development of planting pot based on vertical farming by using fertigation system. To choose the suitable material before produce planting pot, need to make a design based on the objective. This project was carried out the application of the fertigation system for fertilizer the crops in the PVC pipe. CATIA software to create a design for fabrication process while fabrication process is used the equipment in workshop such as drilling, joining and others.