Ni SHAIRA GABORNESPinoy Weekly Mula sa huling ulat na P109.4 milyon, umabot na sa P151.3 milyon ang halaga ng pinsala sa mga sakahan sa Western Visayas at Zamboanga Peninsula dulot ng El Niño ayon sa Department of Agriculture (DA). May 6,618 metric tons ng palay at mais ang nasayang. Tinatayang...
“Landlessness pushes rural peoples who already comprise almost 80 percent of the world’s poor into greater destitution.”
Agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) of Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac trooped to the main office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Quezon City on Monday morning to question a new directive labeling them as mere claimants.
Armed men who introduced themselves as employees of the Golden Summit Mining Corporation (GSMC) and former members of the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) fired at farmers in Isabela.
The country’s biggest peasants’ organization challenged Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food chairperson Senator Villar to act against her own rice tarrification law to prove sincerity in recent pro-farmers pronouncements.
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The farmers were set to harvest the palay, but a super typhoon hit Luzon on the same week. On September 25, Typhoon Karding (international name: Noru) destroyed 148,091 hectares of farmlands in the northern Philippines, affecting nearly 89,000 farmers and fisherfolk.
Tinang 83 farmers and supporters filed six charges against the Concepcion (Tarlac) Philippine National Police (PNP) at the Office of the Ombudsman on Tuesday, July 26, in connection with their violent mass arrest last June 9.
A farmers group has presented what it said are doable programs for the country’s agriculture sector in the first 100 days in office of the Marcos Jr. administration.
A tomato farmer in Bukidnon was supposed to earn thousands of pesos from his produce but was forced to dump them after the price went down.
Ibon Foundation said that the Rice Tariffication Law has never benefited farmers. From P385 billion in 2018 ($7 billion), the value of palay production declined to P333 billion ($6.06 billion) in 2021 despite an increase of 894,076 metric ton in production volume.
The Capas Municipal Trial Court has dismissed the illegal assembly and malicious mischief charges against the Tinang 83, a decision immediately lauded by farmers groups and their lawyers.
Tinang farmers and advocates listen to one of their lawyers Jocelyn Clemente after the arraignment this morning. (Photo by Bulatlat)