Of the six promises Marcos made on agriculture, three were fulfilled. His administration succeeded in providing loans to the agriculture sector for farm inputs, imposing a one-year moratorium on payment of land amortization and interest and the signing into law of the new Agrarian Emancipation Act.
By JONATHAN DE SANTOS EMPLOYEES of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) have filed a graft case against an official of the DAR’s Bids and Awards Committee for awarding engineering firm F.F. Cruz and Co. a contract to survey Hacienda Luisita which they said was overpriced. F.F. Cruz was to survey a portion of Hacienda
By VINCENT GO
Hundreds of farmers from Negros Occidental and Batangas marched to Manila to ask President Benigno Aquino III to immediately distribute land to farmer-beneficiaries before the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ends in 2014.
By HOMER TEODORO
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD Felix Nacpil Sr. jumped in joy when he heard the news about last week’s final ruling of the Supreme Court awarding the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate owned by the family of President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino III to their 6,296 farm workers.
By HOMER TEODORO
THERE’S a brewing tension between labor unions and 10 barangay chairmen of Hacienda Luisita because of their conflicting lists of farmer-beneficiaries considered to own and possess the 4,915.75-hectare sugar land estate of the Cojuangco family in Tarlac.
Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
THIRTY-ONE farmers affiliated with the peasant federation Task Force Mapalad staged a lightning rally outside the gates of the Malacañang Palace complex to denounce the slow pace of implementation of agrarian reform.
Text and photos by VINCENT GO
SOME 150 farmers from Negros Island arrived at the Manila North Harbor today as part of Lakbayan, a protest march to dramatize their frustration over government's failure to speed up the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER).
