Big landowners on the Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon province are fencing their properties to stop agrarian reform beneficiaries from taking possession of the land that had been awarded to them, a leader of a nongovernment organization in Lucena City said Friday.
Big landowners on the Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon province are fencing their properties to stop agrarian reform beneficiaries from taking possession of the land that had been awarded to them, a leader of a nongovernment organization said Friday.
Another doomsday prophecy? Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes on Friday said Catholic bishops appear to have their own prediction of doomsday—this time on June 30, 2014—the same day the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) expires.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has pledged its support to the humanitarian organization Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its army of volunteers in building “new townships” for farmers who had received land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
A militant farmers’ group on Thursday denounced the creation of a new agency on agrarian reform as an attempt by the administration to extend its “antipeasant, prolandlord” policies beyond the life of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) next year.
Leaders of the Bondoc Peninsula farmers in Quezon province on Monday dared Agrarian Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes to be decisive and hasten the distribution of land to beat the deadline of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes on Friday welcomed the proposed five-year extension of the agrarian reform law, but said it was “not necessary, but it won’t hurt either.”
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes is open to a proposal by lawmakers to extend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by five years from 2014.
A move to extend the agrarian reform law by another five years upon its expiration in June 2014 is “total madness,” a militant farmers’ organization said on Friday.
Two lawmakers are seeking a five-year extension of the agrarian reform law expiring in June 2014, saying the Aquino administration is far from meeting its objectives of completing land acquisition and distribution.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes on Monday said demands for high compensation by the family of President Benigno Aquino who owned Hacienda Luisita would not stop him from proceeding with distributing the vast sugar plantation in May next year.
Unlike other agencies, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is not required to turn over agricultural lands to the Department of Agrarian Reform for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
A militant farmers’ group on Thursday demanded that the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) release the original list of farmer-beneficiaries of the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.
