Tag: CARP

PBBM declares 1 year moratorium on land amortization, interest payments to help agrarian reform beneficiaries

Pres. Marcos Jr., signs EO that covers land distributed under Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program   (Eagle News) – President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., declared a one-year moratorium on the payment of land amortization and interests that will benefit thousands of agrarian reform beneficiaries. President Marcos Jr., signed the executive order declaring the moratorium on his birthday, Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The Department of Agrarian Reform said that the measure is expected to benefit 654,000 agrarian […]

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Senator Marcos: Write off unpaid amortizations, interest payments, penalties from loans secured by beneficiaries under CARP

(Eagle News)–Senator Imee Marcos wants all unpaid amortizations, interest payments, and penalties or surcharges from loans secured by agrarian reform beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program written off. In proposing Senate Bill No. 849, or the “Emancipation of Tenants Act of 2019,” Marcos noted that agrarian reform beneficiaries have resorted to engaging the services of informal lending channels to pay “onerous interest on production loans, leaving them with little money to spend on improving […]

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DENR sinugod ng mga tumututol sa land conversion sa Sicogon Island, Iloilo

Ni Eden Santos Eagle News Service Eagle News – Sumugod sa tanggapan ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang ilang residente ng Sicogon Island sa Iloilo. Ito ay para ipaglaban ang kanilang karapatan sa lupa, tubig at kabuhayan. Sigaw rin ng mga ito na “itigil ang land conversion” sa isla na ginagawa ng Ayala land at Sideco. Kasabwat umano ang mga opisyal ng DENR doon. Ayon kay Dory Villa, residente sa Isla, matagal […]

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“I have three more years” to give to the people, says Duterte; directs faster distribution of gov’t land

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the faster distribution of government lands to qualified beneficiaries, saying he wanted to “give everything to the people” in the next three years that he is in office. Duterte gave the directive to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).  He ordered the government agency to prioritize the distribution of government-owned lands which were not being used, including the ones in the mountain areas to Agrarian Reform […]

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UN finds herpes killed millions of Iraqi carp

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — The sudden death last year of millions of Iraqi carp, used in the country’s signature dish, was caused by a strain of herpes harmless to humans, the United Nations said Wednesday. Iraqi fish farmers south of Baghdad were left reeling in late 2018 after piles of dead carp were found washed up on the banks of the Euphrates River or floating in their cages. Rumours swirled over whether the fish were […]

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65 magsasaka sa Laguna, binigyan ng Certificate of Land Ownership Award ng DAR

Ni Willson Palima Eagle News Correspondent NAGCARLAN, Laguna (Eagle News) – Matapos ang mahigit na 30 taon paghihintay kaugnay ng patuloy na ipinaglalaban ng mga magsasaka sa Laguna ay ipinagkaloob ng pamunuan ng Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) ang may 65 titulo, certificate of land ownership award (CLOA) sa lahat ng mga agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) sa Nagcarlan, Laguna kamakailan. Ipinagkaloob ng mga nabanggit na bilang ng mga titulo sa mga magsasaka na sinaksihan ni […]

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