README file
Data Set Title: “Dataset on simplified hydroponics”

Data Set Author: Francesco Orsini 

Data Set Contributors: Annah Indeche (Jomo Kenyatta University), ORCID 0000-0002-3653-7497; Elisabeth Ofosuah Obeng (Wageningen University), ORCID 0000-0002-9135-6007; Ujunwa Victoria Aghaji (AGLOBE Development Center, Nigeria), ORCID 0009-0002-6537-2836; Gaia Moretti (University of Bologna), ORCID 0009-0003-8767-9270; Elisa Appolloni (University of Bologna), ORCID 0000-0001-9561-1557; Vito Aurelio Cerasola (University of Bologna), ORCID 0000-0002-8565-8236; Francesco Orsini (University of Bologna), ORCID 0000-0001-6956-7054; Stefania De Pascale (University of Naples Federico II), ORCID 0000-0002-3653-7497; Fenton Beed (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations); Guido Santini (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations).

Data Set Contact Person: Francesco Orsini (University of Bologna)
Data Set License: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
Publication Year: 2025

Project Info: INtegrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa (InCitis-Food) Horizon-101083790
Data set Contents
The data set consists of: 
•	1 README file saved in .rtf format
“INCiTiS-FOOD_SimplifiedHydroponics_README.rtf”
•	1 dataset file saved in .rtf format
“INCiTiS-FOOD_SimplifiedHydroponics_Dataset.csv”

Data set Documentation
Abstract
The dataset includes primary data (yield in grams per square meter per day or in kilograms per square meter per year) from experiments on simplified hydroponics conducted on four different cultivation systems (three of them hydroponic, namely Floating, Substrate and Garrafas PET, and one on soil), as well as secondary data referring to the minimum cultivation surface required to feed one person, based on a standard diet of 200 g of fresh vegetables per day.
File specifics 
The file INCiTiS-FOOD_SimplifiedHydroponics_Dataset.csv a delimiter text file with the following specification

Field delimiter: “;” (semicolon)
Encoding: UTF-8
Notes 
The data are presented in the following publication:
Indeche, A., Obeng E.O., Aghaji U.V., Moretti G., Appolloni E., Cerasola V.A., Orsini F., De Pascale S., Beed F., Santini G., 2025. New technologies for urban vegetable production. Acta horticolturae. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2025.1422.2