Fast Facts: Hacienda Luisita

Photo shows workers loading sugarcane on a truck. TONETTE OREJAS/INQUIRER CENTRAL LUZON

4,915.75  hectares  – Total area of agricultural land covered by the stock distribution program which was approved in November 1989

500 hectares – Area that had been converted for residential-industrial-commercial use—200 hectares were sold to Luisita Realty Corp. while 300 hectares were sold to Luisita Industrial Park Corp.

80.51 hectares – Area sold to the government as part of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx)

4,335 hectares – Land to be distributed to farmworker-beneficiaries (FWBs) or their successors in interest

6,296 – Total number of original FWBs of Hacienda Luisita who will benefit from the Supreme Court decision

4,206 – Total number of nonqualified FWBs, or those who will not benefit from the high court’s ruling

P196.6   million – The value of 4,915.75 hectares  at 1989 prices

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