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First experiment related to the method of hydroponics was done by:
  1. Knop
  2. Hill
  3. Amon
  4. Sachs

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Hydroponics is the technology of growing plants in a nutrient solution composed of water and fertilizer. The word hydroponics is derived from two Greek words: 'hydro' meaning water and 'ponos' meaning labor. The term hydroponics was first used in the late 1920's by a professor in California named Dr. W.F. Gericke. He developed a technique, pioneered by German scientists Sachs in 1860