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Organic Hydroponicsby Melvin Landers

Some innovative individuals who met through an Internet discussion group have formed an alliance to introduce an important technology to the hydroponic community. In the near future-if all goes according to plan-hydroponic growers will be able to cultivate any number of crops with readily available, low-cost, stable organic nutrient solution.

Dr. Raul Martins, a Brazilian engineer, is the manager of Industria de Produtos Agritecnicos, Ltda., in São Paulo, Brazil. He and his partner, Dr. Jose Karam, have applied their extensive expertise in biodigestion and passion for hydroponics to create a viable, sustainable organic nutrient solution.