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.
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