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Duterte 'appalled' by killings in Negros Oriental: spokesman

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 25 05:52 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is appalled by a recent string of killings in Negros Oriental province, which he visited this week, Malacañang said on Tuesday.  Read more »

31 DAR employees nagpositibo sa COVID-19; mandatory testing sa mga empleyado ipinag-utos

April Rafales, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 25 12:15 PM

Ipinag-utos ng Department of Agrarian Reform na isailalim sa mandatory coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing ang kanilang mga empleyado matapos dumami ang nagpositibo sa sakit sa tanggapan.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: February 18, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 11:28 PM

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

‘Buhay sa Gulay’

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 05:03 PM

Residents harvest vegetables grown in New Greenland in Barangay Bagong Silangan, Quezon City on Thursday. The ‘Buhay sa Gulay’ project, a 7-hectare urban gardening project implemented by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the local government of Quezon City, aims to help residents of Bagong Silangan cope with the ill-effects of COVID-19 and combat hunger and poverty in the area by providing them a source of income.  Read more »

Remembering the Mendiola Massacre

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 06:26 PM

Demonstrators troop to Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Friday to commemorate the Mendiola Massacre, which happened 34 years ago.  Read more »

Ex-DAR official to receive over P1 million after wrongful dismissal

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 07 03:44 PM

The Commission on Audit has ordered the regional and provincial offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform to pay former Cagayan provincial agrarian reform officer Francisco Baculi P1.16 million worth of back salaries and other benefits. Read more »

'Buhay sa Gulay'

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 03 02:51 PM

Residents participate in the “Pick, Harvest and Pay” promo for the first urban vegetable garden harvest festival, dubbed as “Buhay sa Gulay”, at the football field of St. John Bosco Parish in Tondo, Manila on Sunday. Read more »

Sugar not truly in our hearts: Jose Mari Chan says industry facing challenges

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 28 02:11 PM

Chan, who owns the Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Company Inc. and A. Chan Sugar Corporation, said that the Philippines used to produce 2.6 million tons of sugar a year, but this is now down to just 2 million tons.  Read more »

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 »