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Senators eye creation of new agency after agrarian reform dept fulfills mandate

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 06 02:51 PM

At least two senators on Tuesday said they are considering the creation of a new agency once the Department of Agrarian Reform completes its mandate to distribute land. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 1, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 11:49 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Farmers push for economic subsidy

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 02:35 PM

Protesters picket in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform and Department of Agriculture in Quezon City on Thursday.  Read more »

Loans for COVID-19 response reach P392.94 billion

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group
Posted at Sep 03 06:22 PM

The running total will be paid from 2023–2049, with an average repayment period of 15 years for each loan, based on the amortization schedules indicated in the loan agreement documents available on the DOF website as of Aug. 5. Read more »

Philippines gets $370 million World Bank loan for land reform program

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 20 02:08 PM

The World Bank is lending the Philippines $370-million or around P18.3 billion for a project that aims to speed up the country’s program to redistribute land to farmers, the Department of Finance said on Monday. Read more »

World Bank approves $370-million loan for PH land parcelization, individual titling project

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 27 10:09 PM

The World Bank has approved a $370-million loan for the Department of Agrarian Reform’s project that will provide individual land titles to some 750,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries. Read more »

Dating Senador Heherson Alvarez, pumanaw na dahil sa COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 20 10:35 PM

Binawian ng buhay ang dating senador matapos magkaroon ng sakit na COVID-19. Read more »

OPINION: The elusive peace in the countryside

Edmund Tayao
Posted at Dec 30 05:09 PM

We have to be patient and sensitive if we are to expect the peace process to not only make remarkable headway but ultimately to succeed. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 1, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 11:46 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Next generation's dilemma

Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 01 04:52 PM

A child of a farmer gets his head shaved as a form of protest saying that members of the future generation will bear the brunt of what they say is the government’s dismal land distribution program in a rally led by Task Force Mapalad on Tuesday outside the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Bacolod City. Read more »

Duterte: Hacienda Luisita exemption 'fly in the ointment' of Cory's agrarian reform

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 19 10:24 PM

The exemption of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac was the only “fly in the ointment” in the agrarian reform program of the late president Cory Aquino, President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday. Read more »

Duterte says won't honor sale of land given to agrarian reform beneficiaries

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 19 08:56 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte rejected Thursday the sale of land given to agrarian reform beneficiaries, saying he won't honor such contracts.   Read more »

Duterte warns sugar barons: Return land to farmers

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 07 02:14 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday warned sugar barons to return agrarian reform land to farmers, saying they could be "forced to surrender" the property as soon as a complainant comes forward. Read more »

Duterte: 'Kaunting gulo' asahan sa pagsugpo ng militar sa mga komunista

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 28 09:20 PM

Nagbabala si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na magkakaroon ng "kaunting gulo" matapos niyang utusan ang militar na tapusin na agad ang kilusang Komunista sa bansa. Read more »

'It has to be now': Duterte orders military to end communist insurgency

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 10:23 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told the public to expect “a little trouble” in the coming months as he called on the military to end the decades-long communist insurgency. Read more »

Duterte: Hacienda Luisita's land reform exemption 'greatest aberration'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 27 11:01 PM

MANILA (UPDATE)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday hit the exemption of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac from the land reform program as the "greatest aberration" even as he asserted he had "nothing against the Aquino family."  Read more »

Duterte distributes land titles to 13,585 beneficiaries

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 13 11:26 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday led the awarding of 24,000 hectares of government lands in North Cotabato, Sarangani, South Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat to 13,585 agrarian reform beneficiaries.    Read more »

Duterte orders gov’t agencies to identify land suitable for distribution to farmers

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 04:46 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has issued an executive order directing all government agencies to identify government-owned lands suitable for agriculture for distribution to qualified beneficiaries. Read more »

Pagkain, kapakanan ng magsasaka: mga pangamba sa rice tariffication

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 19 08:23 PM

Maaaring mas paboran ng rice tariffication law, o batas na mag-aalis ng limitasyon sa inaangkat na bigas, ang mga negosyante kaysa ang mga magsasaka, ayon sa isang dating kalihim ng gobyerno.  Read more »

DAR order on Land conversion questioned

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 19 03:42 PM

Farmers and land reform advocates protest in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Quezon City on Tuesday, calling to scrap Administrative Order No. 1 that streamlines the process of land use conversion. Read more »