C. at the time when the modern agriculture was first taking a strong foothold into japan, and the prevailing philosophy was the more better fukuoka, instead of asking “what if we try this. What if we try that?” would ask, “what if I don’t do this?” so when the neighboring farms were buying a heavy machinery to plough the fields. Fukuoka stopped ploughing altogether. He didn’t use any chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. And as a raised farmer, he even abandoned the ancient practice of flooding the rice fields. But he had the result the was compliable or even superior to neighboring farms who invested a huge sum of money I heavy machinery, fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.