Farm workers entitled to parcels of land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate may avail themselves of support services from government agencies to boost productivity, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Wednesday.
A year after the farm workers of Hacienda Luisita won their case before the Supreme Court, the Department of Agrarian Reform said it remained on track with the distribution of land to more than 6,000 farmer-beneficiaries.
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.
LUCENA CITY—What good will the farmers’ certificate of land ownership be if it would only expose them to danger? Jansept Geronimo, campaign officer of the Quezon Association for Rural Development and Democratization Services (Quardds), said they had to rush to Bondoc Peninsula on Friday afternoon after receiving reports that most recipients of certificates of land [...]
“I’m not sacred and I’m not a cow.” This was the reaction of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes to Fr. Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-Nassa).
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.
It is harvest time in the sugar plantations.
The past 12 months saw Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes battling criticism and staving off calls for his resignation both from the farmers his department purportedly serves and the workers it employs.
(Second of a series) It hasn’t been easy for peasant leader Jaime Tadeo. Tadeo remembers with a wry smile that he once asked then President Corazon Aquino for land for the farmers, but got himself instead a cell in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, which means tiny land in Filipino. [...]
Setting aside differences with Malacañang, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday pleaded with President Aquino to meet with 56 farmers on a hunger strike to dramatize demands for the swift implementation of agrarian reform commitments he made to them six months ago.
At least 16 farmers have collapsed since a militant group began a hunger strike on Monday to press demands for the ouster of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes for allegedly failing to carry out commitments made to them personally by President Aquino six months ago, organizers said Wednesday.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has been investigating the use of all Malampaya fund shares that have been allotted to the agency since 2002, according to Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes.
