中文版介绍:
农耕是人类文明的基础,但是到目前为止,人类还没有整理出全部农耕经验。假如要集中所有的力量和工具来征服整个地球,就必须清楚的知道世界各地的人们在食物生产过程中都遇见哪些问题,以及他们解决问题的方法。 真正的农业旅行家很少,真实的介绍伟大的乡村自然条件的书籍更少。最重要的是,关于农业旅游的书屈指可数。在进行农业旅游时要坚持科学的探索精神,对各种征服自然的行为进行对比研究,之后再将研究得来的结果告知从事农业生产的人们。 King是这方面的专家,他写作这本书是为了记录和研究农业生产者真实的生活环境。他说,农业耕作的首要条件是保持土壤的肥沃,东方各民族早已遇到此类问题,而且也已经找到了解决方法。对于这个问题,西方或许也能直接从他们的经验中获益良多。这是西方向东方学习保护自然资源的第一课。这个便是King从东方带回去的重要信息。 这本关于农业的书也应该有利于东西方的相互理解和交流。
英文介绍:
In the 1909, American agronomist F.H. King toured China, Korea and Japan, studying traditional fertilization, tillage and general farming practices. He wrote his observations and findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries, Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan (1911, published shortly after his death by his wife, Carrie Baker King; numerous facsimile reprintings, including Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8, and Rodale Press, ISBN 0-87857-867-6). King lived in an era preceding synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production and before the use of the internal combustion engine for farm machinery, yet he was profoundly interested in the challenge of farming the same soils in a 'permanent' manner, hence his interest in the agricultural practices of ancient cultures. In recent years, his book became an important organic farming reference.
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