By Masanobu Fukuoka
"Readers who anticipate this to be a publication in simple terms approximately farming can be shocked to discover that it's also a publication approximately vitamin, approximately well-being, approximately cultural values, in regards to the limits of human wisdom. Others, ended in it by means of rumour of its philosophy, might be shocked to discover it packed with sensible knowhow approximately turning out to be rice and iciness grain, citrus fruit, and backyard greens on a jap farm.
It is precisely due to such routine expectancies- simply because now we have discovered to anticipate humans to be experts and books to have just one subject-that we're short of The One-Straw Revolution. This booklet is effective to us since it is immediately sensible and philosophical. it truly is an inspiring, important booklet approximately agriculture since it isn't just approximately agriculture.
Knowledgeable readers could be conscious that Mr. Fukuoka's ideas aren't at once appropriate to such a lot American farms. however it will be a mistake to imagine that the sensible passages of this booklet are valueless to us for this reason. They deserve our recognition simply because they supply an outstanding instance of what might be performed while land, weather, and vegetation are studied with clean curiosity, transparent eyes, and the proper of shock. they're useful to us additionally simply because they're suggestive and encouraging. Any farmer who reads them will locate his techniques lured many times from the web page to his personal fields, and from there, making connections, to the complete process of yankee agriculture."
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Fukuoka, you are upsetting the conference with your remarks," shutting my mouth for me. Well, that's what happened. 46 Modest Solution to a Difficult Problem So, it appears that government agencies have no intention of stopping pollution. A second difficulty is that all aspects of the problem of food pollution must be brought together and solved at the same time. A problem cannot be solved by people who are concerned with only one or another of its parts. To the extent that the consciousness of everyone is not fundamentally transformed, pollution will not cease.
The more elaborate the counter measures, the more complicated the problems become. Suppose a pipe was laid across Shikoku and water were pumped up from the Pacific and poured into the Inland Sea. Let us say that this may possibly clean up the Inland Sea. But where is the electric power going to come from to run the factory which will manufacture the steel pipe, and how about the power required to pump the water up? A nuclear power plant would become necessary. To construct such a system, concrete and all the various materials must be assembled, and a uranium processing centre built as well.
I wait patiently for the plant to develop and mature at its own pace. In recent years, I have been trying out an old variety of glutinous rice from the south. Each seed, sown in fall, produces an average of 12 stalks with about 250 grains per head. With this variety, I believe I will one day be able to reap a harvest close to the greatest theoretically obtainable from the solar energy reaching the field. In some areas of my fields, harvests of 27 1/2 bushels (1,650 pounds) per quarter acre have already been realized with this variety.