Rearing Crops in Space Station

American space agency NASA has developed a new technique.  The scientists have claimed to grow the first crop at APH, the Advanced Plant Habitat.

Plant Growth Experiment
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As per reports this first crop is a small species of wheat and a flower plant Arabidopsis.

APH was established in space in 2017. The Project Director Brian Onett said that besides growing small plants, the quality of seeds could also be developed at APH. This is a big achievement of agriculture in space.

 It is believed that this research would provide fine quality nutritious food to those astronauts who work on ISS missions at space for longer durations.

Both the seeds were sown at APH in February 2017. The crops were taken care of by an automatic tool Farmer, known as Plant Habitat Avionics Real Time Manager. APH has been so designed that it develops a necessary environment for the plants to grow in space.