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...
Senator Imee Marcos today sought an accelerated implementation of the decades-old land reform program as government still has to spend P8.36 billion for the land reform backlog of the Department of Agrarian Reform. The agrarian reform program has so far seen the distribution of 4.8 million hectares...
Amid the many challenges that farmers face today such as the pandemic, calamities, and rising cost of farm inputs, AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee proposed a bill which seeks to free Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from their unpaid land reform loan amortization and interests. Under House...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is eyeing more resilient programs for the next six years by reinforcing its three main goals – to speed up land distribution, ensure delivery of agrarian justice, and empower the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)...
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda is confident that, by year end, the government will have hit its economic growth targets. This, despite the fact that the Philippine economy slowed down to 7.4 percent in the second quarter of 2022. Albay 2nd...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. declared that he will impose a one-year moratorium on the payment and interest of land amortization to help agrarian reform beneficiaries in the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Bongbong Marcos FB) "I intend to issue an...
Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno has committed to pursue the passage of the remaining tax reform packages that were left behind by the Duterte administration involving real property valuation and financial taxation. Once in the 19th Congress opens, Diokno said the Marcos administration would...
Aiming to address the “root” of social strife due to landlessness and poverty, Makabayan representatives, together with peasant and fisherfolk leaders refiled the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB) in the 19th Congress. Makabayan representatives along with peasant and fisherfolk leaders...
Farmers’ group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), on Monday, June 20, refuted various claims, reiterating that planting food is not a crime and supporting farmers is not a criminal act. Farmers and advocates on Hacienda Tinang (Photo from Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas) The statement is in...
Farming is among the poorest sectors in the country, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) said. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) NAPC head lawyer Noel Felongco, in an interview with DWIZ 882 on Tuesday, June 14, said that this is rooted in the lack of farmers' ownership of their own land for farming....
