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Previously I congratulate this steemit-garden community account which has reached 11,648.339 SP with our support via Steemit-Garden Community's official curation account @hive-180821 and hopefully in the future it will continue to grow which will benefit us all. And hopefully with the support of the steemit team through Booming tier 1 in this December can continue to improve the progressive ecosystem in this Steemit-Garden community.

Friend steemians wherever they are, in our daily life we are always in contact with plants, either as a source of food to meet the nutritional needs of our bodies, especially micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals as well as entertainment or entertainment. hobbies, especially plants such as flowers and others because naturally every human being would like beauty in this case are flowers and other plants. Therefore, we often see that almost every house has flowers and other ornamental plants, whether they are cheap or expensive. This does not look at certain strata of society, whether rich or poor, in urban or rural areas, even people who have limited land but still try to grow flowers and other plants with various techniques and methods that use the smallest amount of land.

In addition to entertainment and hobbies, there are also people who use their land to grow crops as a source of income by planting fruit trees, for example. Besides being able to meet the nutritional needs of the family, this activity can increase the income of the person concerned.

Yesterday I went to the office in Lhokseumawe because there was a need related to my main duties and functions as a medic veterinary (veterinary doctor) at the Department of Plantation, Livestock and Animal Health, North Aceh Regency. Our office is still based in Lhokseumawe because it does not yet have a representative office in Lhoksukon. This office was the former Plantation and Forestry office before joining the new nomenclature, namely the Plantation, Livestock and Animal Health Office. The Plantation, Livestock and Animal Health Office has an area of approximately 400 meters². Among the office buildings there, there is a little vacant land close to the prayer room and canteen that has been used to grow vegetable crops such as mustard pakcoy and several other vegetables. Because the available area is very narrow, it is forced to plant it with an effective and efficient method, in this case the hydroponic method.

Hydroponics is a method for growing plants such as vegetables and others using water media which is carried out with special equipment and certain techniques that are very efficient where narrow land is not an obstacle to do it even be a solution for those who have limited land. To grow plants using the hydroponic method, both the DFT (Deep Flow Technique) system and the NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) system, special facilities are needed that are designed as needed.

Currently, there are several hydroponic methods that are often used by people in our area, including:

1. Hydroponic NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) which is a hydroponic system that uses a nutrient circulation system. In this system, nutrients will be circulated in a thin stream or similar to a film, which aims to allow plants to get nutrients, water and oxygen at the same time. The NFT system is very efficient because the use of the same application of water and nutrients can save labor and time.

2. DFT (Deep Flow Technique) which is a hydroponic system that circulates water and nutrients using the puddle method. In this system, the circulation of water and nutrients from the reservoir to all plant roots is returned to the reservoir to be re-circulated to the plant roots so that this puddle will make the plant roots submerged in water and nutrients so that the plants get their nutrient needs properly.

3. Hydroponic wick system (wick system) which is the simplest hydroponic system and does not need to use installation and electricity in cultivation. This wick system can be practiced on a home or hobby scale because it uses tools and materials that are quite easy to obtain and can use capillarity with flannel to help nutrients to be absorbed into plant roots.

4. The floating raft method is a hydroponic system that is categorized as very simple and easy to apply and only requires tools and materials that are easily obtained and the method of manufacture is very easy and can be made at a lower cost. In this system, floating rafts can be used as small-scale hydroponics (home) or hobbies up to large-scale (industrial).

5. Dutch Bucket which is a method that is often used for the cultivation of plants that have tap roots such as melons, chilies, peppers and tomatoes. This system uses a method of nutrition that is absorbed directly by plant roots and the rest will be brought to the reservoir to be recirculated. Solid media that are often used in this system are husk charcoal, cocopeat, coccogrow, hydroton, broken bricks and others.

From the five hydroponic methods above, I have practiced two methods, namely the floating raft method and the axis method and in the future I plan to make DFT and NFT methods when I have free time and currently I have made a paralon pipe that I punched holes for the net pot and I will design the DFT and NFT later. I have also practiced the aquaponics method by utilizing the circulation of koi pond water some time ago before rehabilitating the fish pond, where in this aquaponic method, the source of nutrition comes from pond water which is circulated through pipes and net pot plants to the filtration system and so on pond water. which has been filtered is returned to the fish pond.

The hydroponic method used at the Plantation, Livestock and Animal Health Office of North Aceh Regency is NFT with a special design adapted to the available land. However, today's conditions, the crop has been harvested some time ago and the next planting process has not yet been carried out.

In the backyard of the office near the hydroponic installation, various flower plants are also planted, which are actually quite beautiful but do not receive enough care because the old office janitor is often sick so it is not able to cover all plants and a fairly large office yard.

After finishing my work at work, I went home because it was getting late and on the way I stopped at a garden on the side of the road to buy my son's papaya. This plantation is actually land belonging to a national vital project (PT. PERTAMINA) which was previously owned by Mobil Oil Indonesia and Exxon Mobil, a multinational company engaged in oil and gas mining. This garden is located on the side of the road in the Point-A area, Nibong District, North Aceh Regency, which is an initiative of two local residents who use vacant land along a road filled with shrubs due to Exxon mobil's no longer operating. These two residents cleared the shrubs along the road and planted them with papaya trees. And after a few months later this papaya tree has grown and produces papaya fruit that can be consumed and also sold to increase the income of the family of these two residents. According to information from one of the residents who worked on the vacant land and planted it with papaya trees, their efforts have paid off and can meet their daily needs by selling papaya fruit, especially when they are also planting other vegetables along the road ditch.

In my opinion, this is a creative move from the residents where they use the vacant land to generate income for them. And with the use of the land, it will change the previous "spooky" landscape that was full of shrubs which were also prone to crimes such as theft of livestock into a beautiful and friendly scene.

More people should do similar activities by utilizing vacant land in order to provide for family nutrition and prevent stunting in children and increase income to meet daily needs. And for this, efforts are needed from stakeholders in terms of fostering cultivation techniques, facilitation of production facilities and also post-harvest so that farmers get optimal benefits.

Those are my sharing activities this time. Hopefully in the future I can continue to share my activities and experiences, especially those related to the world of plants and thank you to @vipnata @lachicarebelde @liasteem @allahnawaz03 and friends of steemians in this Steemit-Garden community.