organic vegetables, eggs, ducks, and ducklings. Through his writings, travels, lectures and cooperation with agricultural organizations and governments, his methods have spread to more than 75,000 farmers in Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Iran, and Cuba. The adoption of this method boosts a farmer's income, decreases their workload, and reduces environmental damage, while increasing local and regional food security. When the ducks are no longer needed, they are used as table birds or sold to add considerably to the family income and protein intake. Farmers using the aigamo method also have more time to spend with their family or doing other things. In the past, it has been estimated that manual weeding of paddies requires 240 person-hours per hectare every year. Publications Furuno, Takao. The Power of Duck: Integrated Rice and Duck Farming. Tagari Publications, 2002. 94p. . Furuno, Takao. Aigamo Duck Cookbook. In Japanese. Nobunkyo publisher, . Furuno, Takao. The One-Duck Revolution. In English. Self Published on Lulu.com, 2012. . . References Sustainable agriculture People from Fukuoka Prefecture Living people Rice 1950 births