Genuine Agrarian Reform

Protest camp set at DAR

By MARVYN N. BENANING
September 18, 2011, 3:53pm

MANILA, Philippines -- Farmers in the 8,650-hectare Hacienda Looc in Nasugbu, Batangas and Maragondon, Cavite have asked the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to stop the conversion of the estate for the benefit of giant real estate firm.

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Ugnayan ng mga Mamamayan Laban sa Pangwawasak ng Kalupaan ng Hacienda Looc (Umalpas- Ka) also accused DAR officials of colluding with SM Land executives in evicting farmer-beneficiaries in the large property.

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http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/334737/protest-camp-set-dar
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CARPer missed objectives, KMP says

The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program extension with reforms should be stopped, to end land monopoly and social injustices, Greg Ratin, KMP spokesperson, yesterday said at a rally in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform provincial office.

The 2nd anniversary of the signing of the Republic Act 9700 or the CARPer Law today is not worth celebrating because it has not addressed the problems of small farmers, Ratin said.

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http://www.visayandailystar.com/2011/August/06/businessnews2.htm
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Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 4, 2009 AT 9:07 AM
By MAO HERMITANIO and JANESS ANN J.ELLAO
Bulatlat

The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.

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http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2009/06/04/another-travesty-as-congress-votes-to-ex...
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Still Fighting for the Land They Till

They came from different places. One farmers’ group tries to eke out a living farming the land they have been tilling in Bukidnon in Mindanao, and the other farmers’ group is in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon. They may be miles apart, but their stories are the same. A land that was almost theirs

Florentino Macote, Jr. is president of the Buffalo Tamaraw Limus Farmers’ Association (BTL) in Bgy. Musuan Dulogon, Maramag, Bukidnon. He is among the 378 farmers tilling the 400 hectares of land inside the Central Mindanao University (CMU).

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By Bulatlat and KMP
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