Larry Korn translated the Japanese Farmer s book One Straw Revolution. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Be it Maharashtra Tamil Nadu or any other part of the country, the agriculture industry is plagued by a lot more than rising prices of manures and pesticides. While acres of crops are destroyed every year due to floods and drought-like situations, farmer suicides across the country are also at an all-time high. With such situations in the backdrop, author Larry Korn, the late revolutionary Japanese farmer-philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka's student, says that a journey back to the past may help in harvesting a better future.