Assist. Prof. Dr. Jinan Abdul Amir Abbas, a teaching faculty from the department of geography at the college education for women presented a seminar of hydroponics which is meant to be a type of horticulture for growing plants, usually crops, without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions in an aqueous solvent.
At the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Jinan Abdul Amir defined the term and stated that the reasons behind the emergence of this a kind of agriculture is to avoid problems experienced by soil such as degradation, salting, darkening, stripping and drifting in light of the increasing population and overcrowding of cities. The cultivation of plants in this system is carried out in pipes in which water and nutrients necessary for the plant passing through in specific quantities.
She also added that this agriculture is suitable in all circumstances, especially in non-arable land or in areas that are very cold or of low solar radiation and that are considered environmentally friendly since there is no need to use pesticides and weeds polluting the environment, reduce water quantities, increase production, reduce production, reduce farming procedures such as tillage, weeding, weeding, settlement, etc. where it increases the speed of plant growth by 20 percent as well as increasing crop production by 20-25 percent.