A leader of a farmers’ group has accused the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) of sabotaging the audit ordered by the Supreme Court (SC) on the financial status of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) after the process was delayed by more than a year.
An army of farmers covered by the agrarian reform program has been deployed to a massive tree planting campaign spanning 900 hectares of public land, the Department of Agrarian Reform said on Wednesday.
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.
It took eight months but President Aquino’s promise to 63-year-old Dorita Vargas, one of the long-suffering faces of the agrarian struggle, has finally borne fruit.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson wants the Senate to look into reported undue redistribution under the government’s land reform program of pieces of property that are otherwise exempted from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will deal only with farmworkers, not with other parties, when it distributes land inside the sugar estate owned by the family of President Aquino, Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes said.
The Department of Agrarian Reform has pledged support for the humanitarian organization Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its army of volunteers in building “new townships” for farmers awarded parcels of land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
The Department of Agrarian Reform has pledged support for the humanitarian organization Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its army of volunteers in building “new townships” for farmers awarded parcels of land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
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.
While the 2012 saw widespread flooding hitting Central Luzon in August, destroying about P2 billion worth of crops, no major disaster struck northern Luzon for the rest of the 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. [...]
