The One-Straw Revolution

"Near 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 machine, 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 through out the growing season as farmers have done for centuries in the orient and the world."