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...The Napa Green certification looks impressively holistic — individual vineyard and winery plans are drawn up to improve land and energy conservation, waste processes, and engagement with workers and neighbours...
...We scatter guinea fowl, hornbills and tiny antelope called dik-dik. We spot rhino, elephant and giraffe tracks in the sandy soil, their dung too....
...“The squares are long, skinny bits of green and the houses are more like palaces.” She argues the buildings remain too tall for the “sympathetic nature of this conservation district”....
...A note from an early housekeeper advises guests should keep a spade in their car and collect soil from any molehills they pass....
...Chickens and ducks of every size, shape and colour pad about the farmyard between abandoned vehicles, scratching worms out of the churned up soil from the building work....
...The gains already made in the green revolution areas have to be sustained through conservation farming, which involves concurrent attention to soil health, water conservation and preservation of biodiversity...
...But under two programmes launched in 2000, agricultural scientists introduced new water conservation techniques....
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