Book: "Farmers of Forty Centuries, Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan" by F. H. King

I have been reading this book on online book sites below, but got tired of staring at computer monitor, so I finally bought the book.

Another title: "Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or: Permanent Agriculture in China; Korea; and Japan"
Read online?  go to the end of this page.


Book Description:


F. H. King lived before petroleum era of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and visited China, Korea and Japan and put his observation of their permaculture system and organic farming practices into this great book. Lots of in-depth look on many different aspects of local lifestyle.  Many photos and illustrations accompany the text to make it easily digestible.

There are many examples of low tech tools and techniques that they use in Japan, China and Korea although it might be too costly for us now, I am sure that we can get good insight.

The book also discusses not only how they had sustained cultivation and farm-community designs for over thousands of years, but also means of distribution, trade and international trade in pre-petroleum sort of manner.

He also talks about specific industries like rice, silk and tea.


Online text
Google book:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NOpEn8H1wmsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Farmers+of+Forty+Centuries&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#king



Buy online at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Farmers-Forty-Centuries-Organic-Farming/dp/0486436098/ref=pd_cp_b_1

Comments

  1. Agrobio Solutions (SA0134472-U)5/6/10, 4:17 AM

    Great blog. I am from Malaysia and follow all blog that promotes organic farming. I did some research and set my own organic garden. A lot of tropical plants also repels insect and I use EM. May be we can exchange ideas,my blog agrobiosolution. Keep up the good works.

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