chinese greenhouse

[mikkokotila]

This might be relevant:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-greenhouse.html

Will do a separate post related with aquaphonics, which I think might be a critically important solution for the future of these communities (as water runs out).

[thepoeticdream]

Yes, it's relevant and the fundamentals agree with Solar Green Houses for the Trans-Himalayas The limited building material supply chain in Ladakh constrains what could be achieved vs. the passive solar greenhouses in China where more modern efficicient materials are readily available.

Aquaponics is very much something that could be the future in the evolution of Zangskar agruiculture but it's much later down the road requiring better infrastructure.

[mikkokotila]

Aquaponics is very much something that could be the future in the evolution of Zangskar agruiculture but it's much later down the road requiring better infrastructure.

What kind of infrastructure do you have in mind?

[thepoeticdream]

Electrical infrastructure mainly. Aquaponics is water pumps, water filtration, water aeration, LED grow lights which requires electricity. Needs to be reliable electricity or all the fish can die in the aquaponics setup because water aeration not happening from power cut etc. Try to scale aquaponics production sufficient for the region and that becomes a lot of electricity required. Feel the route that Zanskar needs to evolve to long term is a solar economy. If the electrical transmission line to the region gets built with Ladakh will soon be home to world's largest solar plant Then perhaps Zanskar could be an exporter of solar PV electricity elsewhere via that transmission line and become a driver for the local economy.

[mikkokotila]

@thepoeticdream thanks for clarifying. Very useful to understand this clearly.