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Hats off to community farming initiative in Velim

Community farming is a step in the right direction with overwhelmingly support by the government, the group of small and marginal farmers who have come forward and initiated by the President of comunidade of Chinchinim Agnelo Furtado and supported by their own  Velim MLA Cruz Silva makes the project fertile. Imagine, around 170 hectares of land will be brought under paddy cultivation by working hand in hand together to utilize the cultivable waste lands or under-utilized lands to earn their livelihoods and make Goa green. It is important to learn that community farming has huge value in helping to control environmental pollution, improving physical activity, producing nutrition that builds healthy living, improves the relations with neighbourhood and gives economic growth to the farmers -- making the stakeholders proud. If you look back few decades ago, Goa's paddy farming was lushly green, with such initiatives, the future is definitely bright again. Goans nowadays are becoming aware of the fact that the food they eat is exposed to chemicals and is potentially carcinogenic -- not anymore when they will sow their own seeds and reap healthy produce.





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Destruction of Taleigao's agriculture

AIRES RODRIGUES, Ribandar
Published Jun 17, 2022, 7:19 PM IST
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A lot of Goa has suffered immensely on account of that unending political greed. One glaring example is Taleigao on the outskirts of Panjim which till that lust of enforced urbanization, land use change and real estate conjecture bulldozed on the farming community, was a model of a very sustainable rural agricultural economy. The farmers of Taleigao used to cultivate 40 different types of crops that being their one and only source of income. Today the stinking sewage from…

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