Very interesting post Fred ...... I can clearly see signs of progress in Goa.
Not long ago, when I was growing up in Goa, people in my village would beckon
their pigs with the old fashioned verbal calls ... "Ghe yo .... Ghe yo ...." at
feed time. Does anybody remember that?
In today's world, Goa is progressing technologically - and the pigs say, they
aren't going to be outdone either! Did you know that even the pigs are
displaying signs of progress?
Well, now-a-days, the locals in many parts of Goa, use a bell instead of the
verbal calls. So when the bell rings .... the pigs scoot back to their homes
... knowing very well, that its time for food !!!
Now, if everybody in the villages use similar bells ... that would create a
helluva confusion among the pigs socializing with other pigs belonging to
different families. The pigs, probably would have to gain some intelligence to
distinguish one bell from the other ...
But think of the good side .... this would create more jobs ... lets call them
"pig trainers", to train the pigs to recognize the pitch of each family's bell
... and as usual ... there won't be any Goan takers for these jobs .... its
going to be the non-Goans !
As demand for pork picks up ... think of all the additional skills that would
be needed ... such as castrating male pigs - even the Goa University would be
tempted to start a 'Diploma in Castrating Pigs' ... you get the point .....
don't you?
Jim F.
New York.
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From: "Frederick Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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
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