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.
A militant peasant group described as a “sham” the final master list of farmers and farm workers who stand to receive land from Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac that was released by the Department of Agrarian Reform on Wednesday.
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the claimants movement Coco Levy Fund Ibalik sa Amin (CLAIM) on Sunday declared support for a move to have Congress investigate the importation and selling of palm-based cooking oil by a sequestered oil mill.
Peasant groups are divided on what to do with the recovered coconut levy fund.
Militant farmers on Friday named five people included in the preliminary list of Hacienda Luisita who they claimed were actually working in the horse stables of President Aquino’s relatives.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes on Thursday challenged critics to name names and formally file their objections against the purported inclusion of horse stable hands and house helpers of President Aquino’s relatives in the preliminary list of Hacienda Luisita beneficiaries.
A militant farmers group has alleged that the land reform beneficiaries that the Hacienda Luisita management identified in a preliminary list released recently by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) included “horse stable and house helpers of President Aquino’s relatives”.
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.
An international fact-finding team is in the country to investigate the alleged land-grabbing by Philippine, Japanese and Taiwanese companies of some 11,000 hectares from indigenous peoples in Isabela to build the biggest bio-ethanol project in the Philippines. The international mission is composed of delegates from the Organic Consumers Association (USA), Global Forest Coalition (Paraguay), Action [...]
