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Dears,
There is finally an admission that the area under rice cultivation
during the monsoon season has gone down by about 4,300 hectares[
43,000,000 sq. metres]. The decrease figures are highly conservative.
Since the advent of the terrible twins: 1. dispossession of the owner
by the Mundkar Act and 2. entry of the politically connected 'land
developer' mafia that buys and 'hoards' land to boost the prices,
cultivation has been stopped. It is easier to "Convert" an
uncultivated field than one that is under cultivation. there is very
little that the Agriculture Department can do. The enforcement
authority is the Revenue Department. If a land is kept fallow by the
agricultural tenant or mundkar for three years, the land should be
reverted to the owner or taken over by the government for cultivation.
Easier said than done. Nothing short of a miracle will make a
Mamlatdar or District Collector take such bold action in Goa. We do
not have an Atchutanand as Chief Minister in Goa. He got the Revenue
Officials cracking in Munnar......even 5-star hotels in Revenue land
were physically demolished!
Viva Goa.
Miguel
Govt proposes to bring back fallow land under the plough
PANAJI, June 20: Although the area under paddy cultivation in Goa has
gone down from 40,000 hectares to 35,710 hectares in recent years, the
agriculture department this year proposes to revert some fallow land
to bring about 36,170 hectares under paddy cultivation this Kharif
season. The Director of Agriculture, Mr P.P. Kumbhare, said that while
the paddy production in Goa was 1,26,830 tonne last year, he expected
the production to go up this year to 1,36,830 tonne.[NT]
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Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts,
Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa
Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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