A RETURN TO ECO-AGRICULTURE
During a nine-month field investigation into agriculture in Northeast Asia in 1909, former U.S. Department of Agriculture official, Franklin Hiram King discovered a system of agriculture virtually unknown in the West. In his subsequent book, Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, he wrote “[we were] instructed in the ways and extent to which these nations for centuries have been and are conserving and utilizing their natural resources, surprised at the magnitude of the returns they are getting from their fields.”
In his book, King described a green and sustainable agriculture in Asia and how Asian farmers kept soil producing sufficiently to feed large populations over 40 centuries, without applying artificial fertilizer.
When addressing a recent Peking University forum
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