Teruo Higa

Teruo Higa ( Japanese 比 嘉 照 夫 Higa Teruo ; born December 28, 1941 in Okinawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese professor of horticulture .

Higa was born and raised in the Ryūkyū Islands . He graduated from the Agricultural Faculty of the State University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Prefecture, and received his PhD from the Agricultural Research Department of the State Kyushu University . In 1970 he became a lecturer and in 1972 associate professor at Ryūkyū University . In 1982 he took over his current professorship for horticulture at the Agricultural Faculty of Ryūkyū University.

He is the inventor of the so-called Effective Microorganisms (EM) and spends almost half of the year abroad in order to spread EM technology in agriculture and other areas in other countries .

Higa holds the following positions:

• Chairman of the Executive Committee for the International Expansion of Natural Agriculture
• President of the Asia-Pacific Natural Agriculture Network (APNAN)
• Executive Director of the Foundation for Earth Environment
• Technical advisor to the Flower Association in Japan
• Director of the International Research Center for Natural Agriculture

Publications (selection)

• The use of microorganisms in agriculture and their positive effects for a safe environment , Nobunkyo 1990
• A Revolution to Save the Earth , Sunmark 1993
• A revolution to save the earth , OLV 2003, ISBN 3-922201-35-0
• A Revolution to Save Earth II , Sunmark 1994
• EM: New Life from Kitchen Waste , Sunmark 1995
• The future regained , OLV Xanten 2002, ISBN 3-922201-42-3
• EM-Salz , Goldmann 2004, ISBN 3-442-21696-6
• Effective Microorganisms (EM) , OLV 2005, ISBN 3-922201-49-0

Co-author

• 2000: the real century , PHP Institute 1994
• Microorganisms Save Our Civilizations , Crest Co., Ltd. 1995
• Comic version of A Revolution on Earth , Sunmark 1995

Web links

• Literature by and about Teruo Higa in the catalog of the German National Library