User:John Dearden/sandbox/Afriponics
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Afriponics Afriponics was a term created to denote a method of farming fish and vegetables.
While the broad principle is similar to Aquaponics, there are a number of fundamental differences, which relate directly to farming conditions in Africa.
The most important is that the system started, by replicating McMurtry M.'s Aqua-Vegeculture System, specifically using sand as the media bed. However, after discussions with McMurtry M., it had shifted too far towards fish production to be a true replica of his system, so another name was given.
McMurtry M.'s Aqua-Vegeculture System was feild-tested in African during the early PhD work and was the precursor to what many refer to as Aquaponics. Perhaps the term Afriponics is a little closer to this original system than subsequent Aquaponic systems.
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References
[edit]McMurtry, M. R.; Nelson, P. V.; Sanders, D. C. (1988). "Aqua-Vegeculture Systems". International Ag-Sieve. 1 (3). Retrieved April 24, 2013.
External links
[edit]https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Chivhu¶ms=19_00_S_30_09_E_