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Natural farming
Natural farming
is an
ecological farming
approach established by
Masanobu Fukuoka
(1913–2008), a Japanese
farmer
and philosopher, introduced in his 1975 book
The One-Straw Revolution
. Fukuoka described his way of farming as in Japanese. It is also referred to as "the Fukuoka Method", "the natural way of farming" or "do-nothing farming". The title refers not to lack of effort, but to the avoidance of manufactured inputs and equipment. Natural farming is related to fertility farming,
organic farming
,
sustainable agriculture
,
agroforestry
,
ecoagriculture
and
permaculture
but should be distinguished from
biodynamic agriculture
.
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