Farmers who have given up hope on agrarian reform and face persistent threats for fighting for land are abandoning farms in one of the country’s agrarian reform hot spots, Bondoc Peninsula, according to a a group of farmers demanding genuine agrarian reform.
More than 200 farmers from Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya have graduated from the “Farm Business School” of the Department of Agrarian Reform, a DAR official said Tuesday.
SARIAYA, Quezon—At least 100 agrarian reform beneficiaries held a rally in front of the town hall on Tuesday pleading for support from a council that had no quorum for the repeal of a zoning law that landowners are now using to reverse the gains of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the town. [...]
Unlike the well-adorned homes and streets in Tarlac City, there is hardly any Christmas decor at Barangay Balete in Hacienda Luisita, the controversial sugar plantation owned by President Benigno Aquino III’s family.
A peasant group denounced on Sunday, the arrest of eight farmers and the bulldozing of their farm lots at Hacienda Luisita allegedly under orders by a company owned by President Aquino’s family in spite of their claims the land was covered under the agrarian reform program.
More than 26,000 landless farmers in Central Luzon have received land titles under the land distribution program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), officials said Tuesday.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will gradually decrease its personnel in the coming months.
If the intial attempt was like playing with fire, the latest proposal put forward to amend the Constitution is “like burning down the house,” anti-Charter change (Cha-cha) lawmakers warned on Friday.
Land in four big haciendas in Negros Occidental province covering almost 500 hectares has been distributed to 270 sugar farmers under the country’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Friday.
Farmers on Tuesday slammed President Aquino over his alleged failure to fulfill his promise of distributing lands to them with only a year left before the expiration of the agrarian reform program.
Farmers covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and their organizations need not hire private lawyers for legal services in relation to their farm enterprises, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said.
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.
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.
