Talk:Do Nothing Farming

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I see the discussion below as a consensus not to merge, and have removed the merger tag. --Belgrano (talk) 19:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

This page should not be merged with No-till farming in my opinion. Fukuoka's system has many facets not directly related to the topic of tillage, and no-till is implemented in many other systems quite different from Fukuoka's. --Belgrano 20:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree, but i think this article should be renamed "Natural farming", which is the most common name used for it. --Cacuija (my talk) 21:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

That seems sensible. Another idea also occurs to me: Since there's already good content on this topic in the Masanobu Fukuoka article, would it make sense just to make this a redirect to that page? The Natural Farming concept we're talking about here does relate directly to Fukuoka as an individual thinker. --Belgrano 13:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I think that the subject of his achievements should be elaborated upon in a separat article. A redirect to the Fukuoka article would inherently limit the amount of specialised content about his actual methods that could be added. Eventually, this would lead to a new article anyway. To address the renaming idea, I think redirect pages to this article could easily include a "Natural farming" redirect page, with less trouble than renaming. --Neotribal42 12:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I also think it should not be merged. No-till Farming as it's commonly reffered to is a rather industial approach to farming using for example herbicides to burn the weeds of the soil. Quite contrary to Fukuoka's methods! Montydog

Don't merge most definitely! Fukuoka-sensei's ways are not identical with no-till farming, while they include it they're so much more than it. No weeding, no fertilizing, no pesticides or much other chemicals, no pruning and very substantial philosophy (also knowledge & theories) underpinning the practical ways. Expand this page, the proposer of the merger must not know Fukouka's ways well, so an expanded page here would give all the knowledge and justify itself for those who don't know ('bootstrap the general knowledge'). macropneuma —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.33.163.65 (talk) 04:22, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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