MARAMAG, Bukidnon (MindaNews/04 December) – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) of South Bukidnon believes it can meet its target to distribute the lands covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) before the year ends. But Task Force Mapalad (TFM), a national federation of farmers, farm workers and individuals working for agrarian reform, doubts [...]

MARAMAG, Bukidnon (MindaNews/03 December) – Gonzalo Pinuti held his hammer tight as he detached the barbed wire from a fence of a former cattle ranch amid the blistering heat of the sun. With help from a fellow farmer, it took him about five minutes to detach the barbed wires and put down three wooden posts and let his colleagues enter the ranch with carpentry tools, round timber and tents for their temporary shelter.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 May) —  It’s planting season but these farmers are in the picketlines, not in the ricefields. Farmers belonging to the Buffalo Tamaraw Limus (BTL) Association staged a week-long rally against Central Mindanao University in Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon demanding that they be allowed to continue using the land previously leased to them under [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – As the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-XI entered its second day, regional director Yusoph Mama was a no show in the scheduled dialogue that would have discussed what the farmers claim are illegal exemption of large real estates in Davao Oriental from coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/08 November) — A group of agrarian reform beneficiaries and farmers engaged in organic farmers is opposing land use conversion which would pave the way for multi-million housing projects in Barangay Lumbia, a suburban district of this city. Just a few meters from a newly bulldozed road leading to a subdivision [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/4 Aug) — “The armed men formed a line, pointed their guns at us and fired.” This was how Erlinda Bacandon described how around 10 gunmen fired at a group of farmers who occupied a ranch owned by a prominent supporter of President Benigno Aquino III, in Maramag town, Bukidnon this morning. Inset [...]

DAVAO CITY  (MindaNews/31 July) —  Unidentified armed men fired at a group of farmers occupying a land covered by the extended Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in Maramag, Bukidnon Friday night, reports said. Oscar Maniego, leader of the Danggawan Landless Farmers Association said that shortly before midnight, unidentified gunmen fired several rounds of  shots at the [...]

MANOLO FORTICH, Bukidnon (MindaNews/31 July) — The management of Del Monte Philippines, Inc. said they immediately stopped operations in a land previously controlled by the family of a former Bukidnon governor in Kuya, Maramag town, according to a DMPI statement sent to MindaNews on July 30. “DMPI will continue to hold-off any operation or activity [...]

DAVAO CITY  (MindaNews/26 July) – Some one hundred farmers have pitched tents and occupied portions of the Ocaya Ranch in Barangay Kuya, Maramag town in Bukidnon to protest its being leased to a giant agribusiness firm instead of distributed to them, reports said. Oscar Manego, leader of the Danggawan Landless Farmers Association, said they will [...]