All loans including interests, penalties and surcharges, due from P14.62 billion loans arising from the award of agriculture lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) as of December 31,2022 should be condoned. Cynthia A. Villar, chairman of the Senate agriculture, food and...
Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman is pushing for legislation that would complete the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by facilitating its second phase. House Bill (HB) No.223, which Roman filed, institutes the second phase of the CARP, which includes the distribution of...
The House of Representatives has given its penultimate approval to a measure seeking the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary...
A House panel has approved the substitute bill for the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
Magsasaka Party-list continues to push for the passage of a bill that seeks the condonation of debt burdens and amortizations accrued by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Sugarcane farmers (Manila Bulletin File Photo) “Condoning the debts now of the agrarian reform beneficiaries will not only...
A farmers’ organization in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat has received a newly renovated processing building, complete with equipment and packaging materials from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in a bid to boost the agricultural production and income of agrarian reform...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is promoting organic farming among Cebu farmers to mitigate the effects of climate change. DAR's provincial office in Cebu conducted a capability training program recently that benefited at least 30 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) belonging to the Ipil...
Agrarian Reform Secretary John R. Castriciones has already intervened in the issue between several agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Davao and Marsman Estate Plantations Inc. (MEPI) urging the former to resolve their long-standing rift with one of the country’s top banana exporters. Banana...
The majority of the members of the Davao Marsman Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Multi-Purpose Cooperative (DAMARB MPC) intend to continue with its contract of lease with export banana plantation company, Marsman Estate Plantation Inc. (MEPI). Photo from Manila Bulletin In a statement, DAMARB MPC...
Penal facilities in Nueva Ecija have agreed to become direct buyers of the produce of local farmer organizations for the purpose of meeting their daily food requirements, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Wednesday, May 19. Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John...
Twenty-seven farmer groups from Western Visayas have vowed to provide a steady supply of food products in order to sustain a program that's designed to benefit pregnant women and malnourished children. (Keith Bacongco / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The agrarian reform beneficiaries’...
Close to a hundred clusters of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Nueva Ecija are going digital in handling their respective trading businesses thanks to gadgets given to them by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). DIGITAL AGRI TRADING-- Farmer groups in Nueva Ecija are going digital in...
