She is of medium build, lively and more openly ebullient about their success. They do not mean success in financial terms, but success of the farming method, which, since its introduction ten years ago, is now spreading all over Southeast Asia. In Japan, about 10,000 farmers have taken it up. The practice has been adopted by farmers in South Korea, Vietnam, The Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia, who have increased their yield 20-50 percent or more in the first year. One farmer in Laos increased his income three-fold.
Financial success is unimportant.
We did not patent the method, we just want it to be widely adopted. The method has been researched and perfected over the years in their own field. At this point, Mr Furuno introduced one of the young men who are working with the family in order to learn the method. My host began to describe the method. The duck is the key to success.