Peasant groups dare presidentiables to address land problem
Peasant groups dare presidentiables to address land problem
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Bulatlat.com
MANILA –- As presidential candidates gear to woo voters, farmers and agrarian reform advocates under the banner of the Philippine Land Reform Movement (PLRM) challenged them to address the lingering land problem, corruption of agricultural funds, and human rights abuses.
The PLRM presented its “Peasant Electoral Agenda for 2016” at the Melchor Hall in the University of the Philippines-Diliman last Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Antonio Flores, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) secretary general, said that under President Aquino’s administration, the farmers’ situation did not improve with nine out of 10 farmers still landless.
Flores said vast haciendas and plantations remain undistributed, like the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac, which is owned by the President’s clan, the Cojuangcos, the Araneta Estates in Bulacan, Hacienda Dolores in Pampanga, Hacienda Looc in Batangas, Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco’s hacienda in Negros, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of plantations controlled by transnational corporations in Mindanao.
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