Tag: land reform

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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Duterte reiterates commitment to complete land reform

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, April 13, reiterated his commitment to give back government land leased to entities to identified beneficiaries of the agrarian reform program. “If they say they have invested so much, I don’t care,” he said in a speech in Bukidnon, referring to corporations that lease land from the government. According to Duterte, in the first place, “the law must be followed.” “The law says the land reform should benefit the […]

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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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President Duterte mulls placing Negros under land reform

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 27, said he was mulling placing Negros under land reform. Speaking to reporters in Bohol, the President said he was studying the same “because there’s a lot of trouble there and alam mo ito sa totoo lang I’m telling you now, the problem really is land.” He noted that New People’s Army members were going about occupying lands to “exploit” the current situation. “We cannot arrive […]

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Duterte to push through with land reform even without peace talks with Communist rebels

(Eagle  News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, June 21, said he would push through with land reform even if peace talks with the Communist rebels will not continue. “With or without the talks with the communist, I will go ahead and forge a good land reform until the end of my term,” the President said in a speech in Davao City. The President had already said he would push through with the reform even if he […]

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Duterte declares entire Boracay island under land reform

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 30, said he was declaring the entire Boracay island under land reform. The President said, however, that if some wanted to “retain” the island’s “commercial quality,” Congress could create a 30-meter easement from the shoreline for the establishments. “Mag-usap nalang kami sa Congress…The entire island will be declared as a land reform area. Sagarin na natin. Give it to the people,” he said. President Duterte […]

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President Duterte’s suggestion to place Boracay under land reform possible, says DENR USec

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Department of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Jonas Leones said that the suggestion of President Rodrigo Duterte to transform the Island of Boracay into a land reform area is very possible. “It’s going to be a land reform area for the Filipinos. Lilinisin ko lang naman tapos ibalik ko sa Pilipino ang lupa nila,” the President said on Monday, April 9, in his departure speech before flying to China […]

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