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 those concrete monsters flows into the fields while those in power merrily look the other way.
Farming and fishing were main businesses in Taleigao with the Odxel tribal fishing hamlet yielding bountiful catches. A large variety of vegetables were grown by those farmers using micro irrigation techniques. Taleigao was in fact the food basket of Tiswadi. Today the low lying parts of Taleigao ecologically face a bleak future as the ancient drainage system has been destroyed and the rise in sea level may soon submerge the area right from St Michael Church to Kamrabhat Tonca and all those monstrous concrete structures would not be worth a dime.
