"Nature Farming" was established in 1936 by
Mokichi Okada
Mokichi Okada (岡田茂吉 ''Okada Mokichi'', 23 December 1882
He founded the World Church of Messiah, that later became the Church of World Messianity, and also is the spiritual leader of Shumei and the Johrei Fellowship. He is known by his fo ...
, the founder of the
Church of World Messianity
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, an agricultural system originally called .
Offshoots such as the Sekai Kyusei Kyo, promoting ‘Kyusei nature farming’, and the Mokichi Okada Association formed after his death to continue promoting the work in Japan and South-East Asia.
ZZ2, a farming conglomerate in South Africa has translated the term to
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, "Natuurboerdery".
According to the International Nature Farming Research Center in
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, Japan,
[Scientific Proof of Mokichi Okada's Nature Farming Theories by Xu, Hui-lian. Agricultural Experiment Station, International Nature Farming Research Center, Nagano] it is based on the theories that:
*
Fertilizer
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s pollute the soil and weaken its power of production.
*
Pests
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would break out from the excessive use of fertilizers
* The difference in disease incidence between resistant and susceptible plants is attributed to nutritional conditions inside the body.
* Vegetables and fruits produced by nature farming taste better than those by
chemical farming.
The term is sometimes used for an alternative farming philosophy of
Masanobu Fukuoka
was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agricul ...
.
Natural Farming
Another Japanese farmer and philosopher,
Masanobu Fukuoka
was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agricul ...
, conceived of an alternative farming system in the 1930s separately from Okada and used the same Japanese characters to describe it.
This is generally translated in English as "
Natural Farming
Natural farming ( 自然農法, shizen nōhō),1975 1978 re-presentation ''The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming''. also referred to as "the Fukuoka Method", "the natural way of farming" or "do-nothing farming", is an eco ...
" although agriculture researcher Hu-lian Xu claims that "nature farming" is the correct literal translation of the Japanese term.
See also
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No-dig gardening
No-dig gardening is a non-cultivation method used by some organic gardeners. The origins of no-dig gardening are unclear, and may be based on pre-industrial or nineteenth-century farming techniques. Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research ...
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No-till farming
No-till farming (also known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certai ...
Bibliography
* 自然農法解說 / Shizen nōhō kaisetsu by Mokichi Okada. Publisher: 榮光社出版部 Eikōsha Shuppanbu, Tōkyō 1951.
References
External links
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