【Agricultural methods to prevent desertification】
* The video shows CCC harvesting the cotton it grows.

It does not look like a cotton field. Once the seeds are sown, they are left as they are. We harvest while looking for the seeds, which is very inefficient.

But there are great advantages to this approach.

This farming method requires absolutely no fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, or defoliants, which are essential for cotton cultivation. Yields are naturally low.

Farming began as an imitation of the forest. I spent several years in the forest, experimenting with agriculture. It was then that I realized that I had to start my own business.

There are no crop failures for fruits in the forest.

I kept trying to figure out why. Even though we had made rows of fields and farmed organically, we were attacked by large numbers of grasshoppers, which ate up almost all of the cotton.

Then, we arrived at the rough-and-tumble method of farming. It is a "leave it alone" approach, so to speak. This is a choice not to produce large quantities of cotton, the raw material.

The advantage of this farming method is that there is very little risk of the land becoming desertified. It is also very unlikely to pollute the natural environment. Large amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides may cause desertification.

Moreover, spraying defoliant in the pursuit of greater efficiency at harvest time would cause tremendous damage to both the natural environment and the growers. In fact, desertification of farmland is becoming a problem all over the world.