The team methodically cleared the one-acre, two-building compound, moving from room to room in an operation lasting nearly 40 minutes, Carney said.

Enyasu would usually harvest at least two bags of sorghum from his one-acre garden, but now he is only likely to get three basins after much of the crop failed.

"Posco wants our land, it wants our water," said Makar Kandi, 75, who supports a family of eight with a one-acre plot on which he grows betel leaves in Orissa's Dhinkia village.