The Greening Of The Desert

Straw Mulch, A Ground Cover Of White Clover Interplanted With The Crops, And Temporary Flooding All Provide Effective Weed Control In My Fields.

I Believe That Even 'returning-to-nature' And Anti Pollution Activities, No Matter How Commendable, Are Not Moving Toward A Genuine Solution If They Are Carried Out Solely In Reaction To The Over Development Of The Present Age.

I Believe That A Revolution Can Begin From This One Strand Of Straw. Seen At A Glance, This Rice Straw May Appear Light And Insignificant. Hardly Anyone Would Believe That It Could Start A Revolution. But I Have Come To Realize The Weight And Power Of This Straw. For Me, This Revolution Is Very Real.

Many People Think That When We Practice Agriculture, Nature Is Helping Us In Our Efforts To Grow Food. This Is An Exclusively Human-centered Viewpoint... We Should Instead, Realize That We Are Receiving That Which Nature Decides To Give Us. A Farmer Does Not Grow Something In The Sense That He Or She Creates It. That Human Is Only A Small Part Of The Whole Process By Which Nature Expresses Its Being. The Farmer Has Very Little Influence Over That Process... Other Than Being There And Doing His Or Her Small Part.

There Is No Time In Modern Agriculture For A Farmer To Write A Poem Or Compose A Song