A study to quantify the productivity of forage oat and the efficiency in the removal of the organic load of swine wastewater, used in different proportions for composition of the nutritive solution for the hydroponic cultivation, was accomplished inside a shed, containing individualized systems of cultivation, in tanks of 3.20 x 0.80 m, equipped with aeration systems. The proportions of 70, 50, 30 and 10% of swine wastewater were used in the preparation of the nutritive solution, represented by values of initial electrical conductivity of 4.2, 2.8, 1.8 e 0.97 dS m-1. The oat was sown on a plastic screen inside the cultivation tanks. The concentration of dissolved oxygen, the electrical conductivity and the temperature of both the nutritive solutions and the air inside the shed were monitored daily, while samples of the solutions were collected weekly for determination of the concentration of COD and BOD. A treatment was used with a conventional nutritive solution as the control. The forage oat cultivated in a hydroponic system, with the use of swine wastewater in the preparation of the nutritive solution, provided productivities of up to 31.5 t ha-1 y-1 and significant decrease of the organic load of the nutritive solution.
hydroponia; treatment of wastes; wastewater; pork production
