MANILA - Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Bernie F. Cruz said there is no need to amend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL). "The agrarian reform program is not about consolidating lands. The program awards individual land titles to beneficiaries to give them the freedom of managing it themselves and to create more opportunities for them," Cruz said in a news release on Tuesday. Cruz made this reaction after of George Barcelon, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), pushed for specific amendments in the CARL that include easing the rules in land consolidation and ownership to create opportunities for better agricultural productivity by farming larger tracts of land. Cruz said the agrarian reform program under Presidential Decree No. 27 and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) issues individual land titles to landless farmers and farmworkers. "If we will consolidate lands, that would be going against the inte
CHEERS TO the media organizations that issued detailed reports on the June 9 mass arrest of farmers, land reform advocates and journalists in Hacien
All of the farmers who participated in the June 9 "bungkalan" or cultivation activity in Hacienda Tinang in Tarlac have been deemed qualified beneficiaries of the government's agrarian reform program covering the area, farmers group Makisama-Tinang said Monday.
The 83 Tinang farmers and their supporters are considering filing counter-charges against the Tarlac police for their alleged violent arrest during a ceremonial cultivation of land or "bungkalan.”