"foresight in the Countryside" 06 | from the soft power of the soil to the cream-flavored champion rice-Japanese MOA natural farming method

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In June 2015, the plane landed at Narita Airport, and the production team began the first episode of the series "Vision in the Countryside". Led by Mr. Yoshinobu Yoshinobu, son-in-law of Taiwan and CEO of MOA Taiwan Association, we went to a farm on the hillside of Rehai in Shizuoka Prefecture for a 15-day trip to explore MOA natural farming methods.

MOA is the abbreviation of the name of the founder, Mr. Mokichi Okada, who thinks about how to settle down physically and mentally from a series of blows and sufferings in his personal life experience. Later, he gained great inspiration from his experience of contact with nature, and then founded the MOA organization with the purpose of agriculture, art culture and integrated medicine.

For the first six days of the shoot, we stayed at Ohito Farm, an experimental farm covering an area of 100 hectares. in order to realize Mr. Okada's dream, MOA made this tea garden, which used to be a customary agricultural law, to improve the soil through soil preparation, soil ploughing, and composting. Until now, Daren Farm has become a demonstration area of natural agricultural law without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or composting. Mr. Abe, who has worked here for nearly 30 years, explained to us the two most important core concepts in natural agricultural law: "activating soil" and "suitable soil and suitable species".

In only one hour of the program, we could not visit all the farmers one by one, nor could we explain all the experiments one by one. But in each of the above examples, we can read that what the natural agricultural law tries to explain to the world is not any practice of prescribing and writing death, but a process of constantly seeking balance between man and nature in a long period of interaction. it is an attitude that must calm down and listen to nature again.

While we started filming the first episode in 2015 and are not on the air until now, some people may think that the wait is too long, but compared with the MOA Natural Agriculture Law, which insists on listening to the land plan for a long time, more than three years of waiting may not be a big deal.

The documentary series "Vision in the Countryside" is broadcast on the main channel of Public Television at 10 p.m. every Tuesday, and "Japan's MOA ─ Natural Agriculture Law" has its world premiere on Christmas Day, December 25, 2018.

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