Masanobu Fukuoka

Birthday:

02/02/1913

Place of birth:

Ehime Prefecture, Japan:

Biography:

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide- and pesticide-free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".