Millions of poor coconut farmers across the country will continue to remain destitute even with the improved export index of Philippine’s “coco water,” an official of the militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said Tuesday.
In 2003, Hacienda Luisita farmers, claiming a stock distribution option (SDO) failed to uplift their living conditions, filed a petition in the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to revoke the arrangement.
Agriculture industry leaders have asked Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman to include small landholding farmers in the agency’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program amid the decline in farm incomes because of low prices of local rice.
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 [...]
Militant farmer groups on Sunday assailed the “extraordinary power” Malacañang had over the multibillion-peso coconut levy fund.
TWO farmers from Mandaue City placed first and second in the national search for outstanding farmers of the Philippines.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala slammed the proposed distribution of the nearly P70-billion coconut levy fund to individual farmers, saying it would only generate floods of court cases against the government.
Today is the 26th anniversary of the so-called “Mendiola Massacre.” On Jan. 22, 1987, 13 people were killed when antiriot forces guarding Malacañang Palace fired at farmers holding a protest rally for “genuine land reform.” In 2007, militant farmers unveiled a granite marker at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City honoring the 13 farmers who were slain.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
FARMERS will now earn additional income as the Aboitiz Foundation recently turned over the “Umahan sa Katawhan” project to their group, Sitio Maraag Sudlon II Farmers Association in barangay Sudlon II, Cebu City.
TWO hinterland barangays in the municipality of Ayungon in Negros Oriental with about 600 households particularly farmers will soon be granted farm-to-market road (FMR) projects.
The union of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has released its own Christmas message to Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes, asking him to “cut cleanly” and step down.
When personnel of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) drove across rugged roads to far-flung villages in Tarlac province months ago to explain the Supreme Court decision awarding Hacienda Luisita to its farm workers, they were met with skepticism.
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).
