A farmer was gunned down by motorcycle-riding suspects in Sariaya, Quezon, on Thursday. Supt. Vilmor Manzano, Sariaya police chief, said victim Bernardo Fajarda was about to ride his motorcycle in Barangay Guisguis Talon when one of the two suspects shot him and missed.
When Jose Laysa on December 23 picked three coconuts from trees which he planted long before lands in Barangay Sumalo in Hermosa, Bataan, became the subject of a dispute, he looked forward to extracting enough gata (coconut milk).
A 25-YEAR-OLD farmer was stabbed dead by a neighbor after they argued in a carnival while two other men were wounded in separate incidents in southern towns of Cebu over the weekend.
One farmer was killed in Zamboanga del Norte following an explosion of an improvised explosive device Sunday morning, the military said.
Nearly 9,000 farmers whose crops were destroyed by last week’s torrential monsoon rains stand to get P100 million in insurance payments from the Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC).
POLICE arrested a 60-year-old farmer accused of sexually abusing his 15-year-old neighbor in barangay Tapon, Dumanjug town, southern Cebu last Saturday.
HE will turn 34 years old today. But Elmar Montecalbo will have to celebrate his birthday inside the jail.
A 34-year-old farmer was arrested as a suspect in the killing of a girl whose body was found dumped in an abandoned well in barangay Tigbawan, Tabuelan town, Cebu.
A FARMER in Oslob town, southern Cebu died while four others fell ill after they ate fish locally known as dalapugan.
President Benigno Aquino III’s Cabinet officials would be on hand to meet with the representatives of farmers marching to Malacañang to press for faster land distribution in accordance with the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with Extension and Reforms.
“There is nothing wrong with cooking. There is also nothing wrong with being a farmer.” Iandycel C. Mijares, a tricycle driver’s daughter and a food technology graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) in Laguna, kept her audience glued to what she had to say.
A FARMER was stabbed dead by his friend whom he advised to stop playing “cara y cruz” or hantak in barangay Langub, Argao town, southern Cebu.
A self-taught forest steward and a foundation that empowers women through small scale businesses won the 5th Triennial Award of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi )for outstanding community service.
