When you talk to others from a diverse background, you often get
another perspective into how things work. A villager, my neighbour
Magdeline, today mentioned that all her pigs had died recently. Was
this, I wondered, a kind of disease that had hit the region without it
getting the attention deserved?
Anyway, she said she was keen to restart keeping pigs. And she
insightfully pointed to the growing number of people staying in
rooms-on-hire in the region. Obviously, the pig in the Goa of the past
helped to maintain local sanitation. While many still don't have
toilets ('sulabh sauchalayas' don't cover all), the pigs have been
vanishing.
Incidentally, the Government of Goa has a Government Piggery Farm at
Curti (Ponda). They're officially promising to sell piglings for
breeding purposes -- at the rate of Rs 40 per kg of live weight
subject to revision, at the farm premises.
Those interested in procuring piglings are asked -- in a thick
185-page book titled 'Welfare Schemes for the People of Goa' -- to
contact the "nearest Government Veterinary doctor". I wonder how many
people know of this possibility of take advantage of the scheme. -- FN
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http://fn.goa-india.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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