User:Macropneuma/Masanobu Fukuoka's curriculum vitae of active service (brief)

Curriculum vitae of active service (brief)

• 1913 – Born, in Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku (island), southern Japan.
• 1931 – Matsuyama Junior High School (松山中学) graduation.
• 1933 – Gifu Prefecture Agricultural College (High School–University) (高農農学科) graduation, was a student under tuition of eminent Professor Makoto Hiura.
• 1934 – Yokohama Customs Bureau, Plant Inspection Division (横浜税関植物検査課) work career, under the supervision of Professor Eiichi Kurosawa, pathology researcher, renowned for being the first person to isolate gibberellin (plant hormone) – with many significant implications; he regarded Professor Kurosawa as a father.
• 1937 – May Spring – Enlightenment experience; Next day resigned, from Yokohama Customs Bureau; Many dialogues trying to convey his enlightenment experience, meditation, wandering –western Japan, Yufuin outside Beppu –Kyūshū (island) southern Japan.
• 1938 – Spring – Return to the family farm to take up farming. Initiating Nature Farming (自然農法). End-up after only a short time due to ensuing War.
• 1939 – War years; Kōchi Prefecture agricultural experiment station (農業試験場) work including farming research & food-production.
• 1940 – Spring – Married Ayako, together having five children over successive years.
• 1947 – End of the war; Taking up farming again – Nature Farming (自然農法) wholehearted devotion.
• 1950 – Rice & Barley continuous succession no-till farming accomplishment – Nature Farming (自然農法) establishment.
• 1972 – Creates "緑の哲学" (literally: Green (verdure) Philosophy) self-published 359 page book of practical-philosophy, theory & practical-ways' actual-methods of doing-practise, –publication announcement date 1972 April 25 (–he brings attention to this as an under-appreciated fact in later writing, 2001)
• 1975 – Creates "自然農法・わら一本の革命" (literally: Nature Farming・Straw One-stalk's Revolution) published by Hakujusha (柏樹社).
• 1979 – July–August – First journey overseas, with Ayako (his wife), to U.S.A., "The two leaders of the health-through-macrobiotics movement in America are Michio Kushi & Herman Aihara in California. It was through their good graces that I was able to tour America in 1979.", for about 40 days with Larry Korn (& friend?); Including University of California Berkeley & LA, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, Lundberg Family Farms; meeting with the United Nations – UNCCD –including Maurice Strong – who encouraged his practical involvement in the "Plan of Action to Combat Desertification"; New York and surrounding states; Boston & Amherst College Massachusetts & so on; sowing seeds.
• 1983 – Europe, 50 days journey with Panagiotis Manikis (Greek) & Miriam (Italian), workshops, educating farmers, sowing seeds –Switzerland, Italy with Giannozzo Pucci also, Austria with Michio Kushi also, Germany, Holland with Thomas Nelissen also, France.
• 1985 – Northern hemisphere summer – Forty days in Africa, Somalia informatively flying through Ethiopia, sowing seeds in areas of desert to re-vegetate them, the then government's unexpected policies limited him to mainly working in remote villages and an Ethiopian refugee camp.
• 1986 – Northern hemisphere summer – U.S.A. return for nearly 50 days, including keynote speaker in three "international conferences on nature farming", July–August, 1 Washington state, 2 San Francisco, 3 Agriculture Dept. University of California, Santa Cruz; Many farms', forests' & cities' visits, giving lectures; Return to Green Gulch Farm Zen Center & Lundberg Family Farms California; Meeting Partap C. Aggarwal from India for the first time; sowing seeds and so on.
• 1987–88 – Desikottam Award, India, given by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan West Bengal; 2 months, lectured in the "Indian Science Congress" and "At seven state agricultural universities and thirty other sites..."; Visited Nature Farms (自然農園) including those of Partap C. Aggarwal with the Friends Rural Centre, Rasulia and of nearby Mr. Raju & Mrs. Shalini Titis, Madhya Pradesh, giving high praise to both farms.
• 1988 – August–September – Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service, with Ayako (his wife), Philippines; Journey among forests, farms, plantations, farmer's markets & the peace memorial monument.
• 1990 – July – Thailand, propagating nature farming to farmers.
• 1991 – Thailand, collecting seeds for re-vegetating deserts in India with little success, planting seeds on the grounds of the Kanchanapuri childrens' village school.
• 1991 – November–December – India return, 2 months, sowing seeds in the deserts to re-vegetate them...; viewing Mangrove broadcast seeding sucesses, Ganges River, West Bengal state; Calcutta; New Delhi; Meeting Minister of Environment; Meeting Prime Minister Rao; Minister of Agriculture; Madhya Pradesh viewing earlier seed sowing from aeroplanes; Professor Makino & Sister Nagashima interpreted & translated; Imphal, Manipur.
• 1991 – Thailand again trying again to collect seeds. Correcting a problem with the seeds planted on the grounds of the childrens' village school.
• 1992 – Participating in official meetings in Japan associated with & at the time of the Rio Earth Summit, Brazil.
• 1996 – Wet season February– – Tanzania, Africa, journey with Mr. Panos (& Ms. 椿さん?), including sowing seeds in areas of desert to re-vegetate them, observing Baobab-tree & jungle country; 2 days stop off Mumbai India on the way home, incl. met with French–Canadian now–nature–farmer Jean-Claude Catry & now-health-centre-founder Dr. Vijaya Venkat, etc.
• 1996 – Vietnam, making, teaching & sowing clay seed balls... .
• 1997 – Earth Council Award honours for contributions to sustainable development.
• 1997 – October – India, presenting in an international seminar commemorating Gandhi, Gandhi's Ashram Sevagram (Wardha). 19 days journey, lectured & observed many farms & gardens. Professor Makino interpreted & translated; His then Japanese student Yuko Honma led a clay seed ball workshop, with him in attendance, Naoko Morioka assisting, Raju Titus & many in attendence. From Mumbai with Kisan Mehta re-visiting nature farms of Poonamchand Baphna, Dahanu and Bhaskar Save, Umbergaon Gujarat, giving high praise to both farms. Producing a film of the journey.
• 1998 – Philippines, Nature Farming (自然農法) research after 10 years passed, including Ms. Aveliw's Nature Farm (自然農園), made in only 4 years.
• 1998 – Spring March & Autumn – Greece with students Panagiotis Manikis & Yuko Honma, sowing seeds in areas of desert to re-vegetate them including major efforts for 10,000 ha around the Lake Vegoritis area, Vegoritida, Pella Prefecture; Starting with 2,500 ha; To be completed in Autumn ... ; Producing a film of the major seed balls efforts' journey.
• 1999 – Mallorca Spain, visit, including making & sowing clay seed balls, interviews ... .
• 2001 – Autumn – China... .
• 2002 – Autumn October 1–14 – "Nature as Teacher" workshop, Navdanya Farm & Bija Vidyapeeth – Earth University directed by Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dehra Dun Uttarakhand, northern India; On Gandhi Day (Oct 2) he gave the third Albert Howard memorial annual lecture; then student Yuko Honma attended teaching all to make seedballs & translating; Many attendees (50+) from all the six continents, including "15 Tibetan Agricultural Extension Officers".
• 2002 – Autumn – Afghanistan, with his then student Yuko Honma he made major preparations in Japan beforehand collecting lots of seeds, he "had planned to spread seedballs in Afghanistan, but isn't feeling up to it these days (he is barely able to walk). So he sent Yuko"; 8 tons of seed were shipped.
• 2008 – August 16 died.