[WATCH NOW] Amazing grass that grows without soil

One needs no soil, no open field to grow grass. An indoor facility with a hydroponic fodder unit can provide any commercial dairy farm with enough green grass to meet the nutrition needs of the animals.

And the technology is quite simple and easy. Initially, it's cost-intensive but cost-effective in the long run.

This was disclosed to a large group of dairy farm proprietors, who gathered on the premises of Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) in the capital on March 30 to know about the soil-less green fodder technology.

Scientists and experts explained that one kg of wheat seeds can yield seven kgs of nutritious grass in the fodder machines within a week.

Rezaul Karim, a principal scientific officer at the BCSIR and key initiator for producing hydroponic grass in the country, told The Daily Star, "Once a dairy owner or a commercial grass farmer installs one such unit, he will require regular supplies of good quality grass-growing seeds (of wheat, maize or other grains) and some mineral solutions, all of which are available in our market."