NATURAL FARMING - Masanobu Fukuoka
In 1975 Masanobu Fukuoka in his book of the one straw revolution
introduced a new agriculture method. Near a small village on the
island of Shikoku in southern Japan, Masanobu Fukuoka has been
developing a method of natural farming which could help to reverse
the degenerative momentum of modern agriculture. Natural
farming requires no machines, no chemicals, and very little
weeding. Mr. Fukuoka does not plow the soil or use prepared
compost. He does not hold water in his rice fields throughout the
growing season as farmers have done for centuries in the Orient
and around the world. The soil of his fields has been left unplowed
for over twenty-five years, yet their yields compare favorably with
those of the most productive Japanese farms. His method of
farming requires less labor than any other. It creates no pollution
and does not require the use of fossil fuels.
He introduced it as an ideology. To live asper the rules of nature
without having much desires . But these ideology has no space in
the current world which is bothering about population explosion
and food security. Even in Japan no one follows this natural farming
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2016