AGRIBUSINESS: Combined production of fish and vegetables can be profitable.

AGRIBUSINESS: Combined production of fish and vegetables can be profitable

. When it comes to future food production, the combined farming of fish and vegetables through aquaponics is currently a hotly debated topic.





But how realistic is the idea? Researchers have just published an extensive profitability analysis of a facility that already produces fish and vegetables on a large scale.



 The result: aquaponics may have both environmental and cost benefits -- if produced according to good agricultural practice and under suitable conditions.