Kannosha

...This farming method aimed to increase yields by soaking rice seeds in water during the winter or storing them in the soil and sowing them in the spring. In 1883 (Meiji 16), he founded the Kannosha, trained instructors, and spread his horse-drawn deep plowing farming method nationwide. At the time, the momentum for improving rice cultivation was growing, especially among landowners, and the emphasis on horse-drawn plowing through reforms to rice field zoning and dry-drying helped to spread the improved farming methods he preached. However, from the 1880s, his improved rice cultivation methods were criticized by up-and-coming agricultural scholars such as Tsuneaki Sakamaga and Tokiyoshi Yokoi, and the activities of the Kannosha gradually declined. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…この農法は寒中イネの種子を水に浸し，あるいは土壌中に貯蔵して春時に播種することにより，収穫の増加を実現しようとするものであった。1883年(明治16)勧農社を設立，指導者を養成して馬耕による抱持立犂（かかえもちたちすき）の深耕農法を全国的に普及させる。当時稲作改良の気運が地主らを中心に高まり，田区改正や乾田化による馬耕の重視などが，彼の説く改良農法を浸透させたが，明治20年代より酒勾常明，横井時敬ら新進農学士により彼の改良稲作法が批判され，勧農社の事業もしだいに衰退していった。…

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