This is another example of hypocrisy by anti-immigrant, non-resident pseudo Goans like Arwin and Rajan.
One reason why agriculture is a dying industry in Goa because of the lack of manpower. There is limited manpower thanks to the large out flow of Goans, like Arwin and Rajan to other parts of India and the world. Landowners would like to get access to manual labor to get farm work done, but we have anti-immigrant bashers like Arwin and Rajan, and extreme leftists like Soter who oppose such free movement of labor to satisfy market needs. Have these anti-free market, anti-immigrant clowns ever spoken to farmers and landowners about the problems they face? With the land lying fallow, it makes a lot of sense for the landowners to sell their properties to the construction industry. It is almost as if the anti-immigrant groups are working hand in glove with the land sharks. Marlon ________________________________ From: Rajan P. Parrikar <[email protected]> On the way back to Panjim this morning from an early photo shoot in Loutolim, I saw a Goan farmer selling fresh vegetables by the roadside in Agacaim. Gaunthi vaingim - http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/vaingim.jpg Looking at these magnificent brinjals I couldn't help but reflect on what might have been if Goan agriculture - and with it our traditional farmers, mostly gaude - had not been systematically destroyed and diminished. You can't get this quality of produce and its taste anywhere in the world, not even in fertile California.
