Fallow weeding - Fallow weeding

Japanese: 休閑除草 - きゅうかんじょそう
Fallow weeding - Fallow weeding

...Leaving the land fallow to restore soil fertility was also used in paddy fields for rice cultivation in ancient China and taro cultivation in Southeast Asia. In Japan, where the climate is humid and warm and weeds grow plentifully, one of the key agricultural techniques was not to leave the land fallow and weed, but to constantly remove weeds by cultivating and weeding, as the saying goes: "High-grade farmers weed without weeding the grass, medium-grade farmers weed after seeing it, and low-grade farmers do not weed after seeing it." There are about 450 species of weeds in cultivated land in Japan, and about 30 species of weeds that are problematic to control in paddy fields. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "fallow weeding" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…地力回復のための休閑は,古代中国の稲作や東南アジアのタロイモ栽培などの水田においても行われた。 湿潤温暖で雑草の繁茂する日本では,休閑除草ではなく,〈上農は草をみずして草をとり,中農は草をみて草をとり,下農は草をみて草をとらず〉と言いふるされてきたように,絶えず雑草を除去する中耕除草が農業技術の一つの要であった。日本の耕地雑草は約450種,水田で防除が問題となる草種は約30種もある。…

※「休閑除草」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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