Pride of the Nation:Navajo Agricultural Products Industry makes good on its promise to improve the land and its people

摘要

NAPI—the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry—isn't your typical family farm.For starters, it's enormous, even by today's standards of expansion and efficiency: 110,000 acres of cultivated land, with 74,000 of those acres under pivots, all on reservation land. Another of NAPI's unique attributes is that the enterprise is owned and operated by the Navajo Nation itself, so the number of people dependent on the stewardship of the farm and the land is much higher than that of most operations. And speaking of being higher, all of NAPI's farmland is situated at well over 5,000 feet in elevation in northwestern New Mexico.