permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

2001, 94 pp. + 4 color plates, $24 + 10% p&h,  Permaculture Activist,
PO Box 1209 Black Mountain, NC 28711

The Power of Duck:
Integrated Rice and Duck Farming
by Takao Furuno

"A beautiful case history of sustainable agriculture - Very finely worked out..." Bill Mollison

By using human inagination and ingenuity, and by cooperating with nature
   rather than re-engineering it, Takao Furuno has cleared yet another
   path for a safe, diverse, sustainable, and profitable agricultural future.
   How profitable? Farmers have increased their yields by 20 to 50% or
   more in their first year while dramatically reducing their labor inputs.
   There are now more than 10,000 practitioners in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand,
   Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Tanzania who know that ducks
   and rice were made for each other. Careful, well-illustrated, meticulously
   tested and documented description of a working integrated organic duck-rice-azolla-fish
   polyculture for paddy, yielding $75,000 per year from 5 acres in Japan.
   A pattern for domestic food security for half the world.