Building a database of plant protecting agents for aquaponic systems - basic concepts
Andras Bittsanszky,
Ranka Junge,
Carmelo Maucieri,
Tamas Komives
Affiliations
Andras Bittsanszky
InDeRe Institute for Food System Research and Innovation, Fehérvári ut 132-144, 1116 Budapest
Ranka Junge
Institute for Natural Resource Sciences, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 8820 Waedenswil
Carmelo Maucieri
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment - DAFNAE, University of Padova, Agripolis Campus, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro
Tamas Komives
Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The paper gives an overview on the progress of the construction of a database of the pesticides that pose minimum risk when applied in an aquaponic system. Aquaponics is a developing food production system that integrates recirculating aquaculture (raising fish and other aquatic animals in closed systems) and hydroponics (plant production in water culture without soil) by using the fish waste as plant nutrient. Fish are highly sensitive to their environment, especially toxic chemicals: pesticides and other pest-controlling agents causing minimum perturbation in aquaponic systems have to be selected with an ecotoxicological approach.
