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"Nature Farming" was established in 1936 by Mokichi Okada, the founder of the Church of World Messianity, an agricultural system originally called "no fertilizer farming" or in Japanese.〔Sustainable Agriculture: Definition and Terms. Special Reference Briefs Series no. SRB 99-02, September 1999. Compiled by: Mary V. Gold, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture〕 Offshoots such as the Sekai Kyusei Kyo, promoting ‘Kyusei nature farming’, and the Mokichi Okada Association formed after his death to continue promoting the work in Japan and South-East Asia.〔Setboonsarng, S. and Gilman, J. 1999. Alternative Agriculture in Thailand and Japan. HORIZON Communications, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.〕 According to the International Nature Farming Research Center in Nagano, Japan,〔Scientific Proof of Mokichi Okada's Nature Farming Theories by Xu, Hui-lian. Agricultural Experiment Station, International Nature Farming Research Center, Nagano〕 it is based on the theories that: * Fertilizers pollute the soil and weaken its power of production * Pests would breakout from the excessive use of fertilizers * The difference in disease incidence between resistant and susceptible plants is attributed to nutritional conditions inside the body. * Vegetables and fruits produced by nature farming taste better than those by chemical farming. The term is sometimes used for an alternative farming philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka. ==Natural Farming== (詳細はMasanobu Fukuoka, conceived of an alternative farming system in the 1930s separately from Okada used the same Japanese characters to describe it. This is generally translated in English as "Natural Farming" although agriculture researcher Hu-lian Xu claims that "nature farming" is the correct literal translation of the Japanese term.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nature Farming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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