Talk:Masanobu Fukuoka
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[edit] achievements
i very much doubt the claim that fukuoka produced similar yield to intensive farming. it needs a reference. otherwise i just the section off trueblood 08:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on second reading, i doubt that the person who wrote the section has read anything by fukuoka( i have), just wild claims in the section, 'all the work can be easily done by hand and is reduced by 80%" nonsense. might be worth putting mark bonfils back into the article, though. trueblood 08:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
"Wild Claims"? As a practitioner of Fukuoka's philosophy on my own farm I can assure you that claim is anything but nonsense. Although I can't verify specific numbers, I know from experience that one can do all the work by hand, and overall labour is greatly down. Montydog 5:30, 2 Sept. 2006
[edit] Broken external link
The external link at the end of the page:
The Fukuoka Farming Website
is broken
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[edit] arguing
quote from article: The Fukuoka method is not suited to growing large quantities of grain, like those presently produced in the industrialised world by means of large-scale mechanization. But one could argue that the vast majority of this grain goes to feed animals (which could be more efficiently fed by diverse forage systems), and the quantity used for direct human consumption could be grown by the Fukuoka method
indeed one could argue that, but i doubt it and i wonder if this is the place to argue. i propose to delete the passage and just leave it with mentioning that fukuoka's method is a small scale method and it is even part of his philosophie that things should be small scale. if he argues somewhere that his method can feed the world, so be it, we can put that in too. but the editors should leavetheir speculation or opinion out. trueblood 07:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. Chop this paragraph, its opinion and speculation quercus robur 09:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Un-done edit (of claimed to be irrelevant Links) by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:QVanillaQ
Hey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:QVanillaQ, If you'd do your research, read Fukuoka's writings, as I've read all his english translated books (but perhaps one 1940's one), read the Fukuoka_Farming yahoo group, as I have constantly & contributed some, then you would know that those links I put up there are nothing irrelevant at all. In detail:
- Fukuoka-sensei recieved a *Magsaysay award* ('the eastern world's Noble prize').
- You'd know that Fukuoka-sensei wrote three books called (in romaji) *"Mu I", "Mu II", & "Mu III"* (Mu in the Japanese buddhist sense).
- And you'd know that the formative experience of the whole of the rest of his life was when he had an experience of *satori* at age 25.
- And finally a reference to him in an anime movie is a very clear piece of evidence of how substantially well known he is at least in some well informed circles in Japan itself.
Sorry I didn't have time to format this talk up properly - I's doing other things & paying for it in an internet cafe when I saw this removal herein.
J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macropneuma (talk • contribs) 13:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
