The labor input is less than if soil is used, once the unit is established.

The work involved is generally light.  Heavy manual operations associated with normal cultivation practice, such as digging, weeding, and ploughing, are eliminated.

No crop rotation is necessary as the growing medium can be reused continually.

Because plants do not have to compete for moisture and nutrients, production in hydroponics compared with soil cultivation in a comparable area, may be increased approximately three times.

Plants can be grown closer together.

The roots of plants are in the best possible growing environment with all food being concentrated around the root system, hence good yields of high quality are usually achieved.

Plants are usually uniform in growth.

There is a minimum wastage of water.

Minimal equipment is required for a very simple system.

There are virtually no weeds. As the nutrient requirements of plants varies according to the seasons, hydroponic gardening can provide plants with optimum quantities of the necessary nutrients during the different seasons.  This will enable maximum growth to be achieved.

The need for dangerous pesticides is largely eliminated if the plants are grown in a controlled environment.  Root diseases are controlled to a greater extent.

Disable people are not excluded from participation in hydroponics as benches or units may be adapted to their requirements.

Hydroponics is a means of growing good quality crops in area where environmental conditions are unfavorable to normal horticultural practices.

Crops can be realized in Artic and Antarctic bases, in desert colonies, in areas of high population densities with decreasing availability of arable land, in space stations and in high rise hydroponic farms with controlled environments, or, in flats where space in minimal.

Hydroponics is a means for self-sufficiency of food in any location