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Patoka, New Zealand. Patoka is a rural community in the Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located at base of the Kaweka Range and Kaweka Forest Park. [1] The area has been used for pastoral sheep and dairy farming since the 19th century. [2] It promotes itself on its rolling countryside, high rainfall ...
Department of Conservation. The historic Haast to Paringa Cattle Track is a trail through South Westland, New Zealand, constructed in 1875 to allow farmers in the Landsborough and Cascade Valley area to drive their cattle on an annual two-week journey to the sale yards in Whataroa. It was constructed as an inland loop to bypass the precipitous ...
Sheep farming is a significant industry in New Zealand. According to 2007 figures reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, there are 39 million sheep in the country (a count of about 10 per human). The country has the highest density of sheep per unit area in the world. For 130 years, sheep farming was the ...
Alex Paddocks is a 7-acre (2.8 ha) vineyard on a terrace above the Earnscleugh Valley under some rocky headlands. It was planted with Burgundian Pinot Noir vines (5, 6, 115) in 1998. [citation needed] In 2000, the company acquired Redbank Paddocks, a sheltered 60 acres (24 ha), also in the Earnscleugh Valley, which nestles between two rocky ...
Ngunguru. Ngunguru is a coastal settlement in Northland, New Zealand, 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-east of Whangārei. The Ngunguru River flows between the settlement and a long low sandspit into Ngunguru Bay, which stretches southwards. North of Ngunguru are Tutukaka and Matapouri.
However, as of 2017, the New Zealand Government still provides state investment in infrastructure which supports agriculture. [5] Pastoral farming is the major land use, but a significant amount of land is also devoted to horticulture. New Zealand is a member of the Cairns Group, which is seeking to have free trade in agricultural goods. [6]
Cape Kidnappers. Cape Kidnappers, known in Māori as Te Kauwae-a-Māui and officially gazetted as Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui, is a headland at the southeastern extremity of Hawke's Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island and sits at the end of an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) peninsula which protrudes into the Pacific Ocean.
64/km 2 (170/sq mi) Postcode (s) 4172, 4174, 4175, 4178. Longlands is a rural community in the Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. The area is on the southern and western outskirts of Hastings city. The Longlands Estate occupied much of the land around 1880, [3] but was broken up into smaller farms and a ...