DAR joins ‘Kilos SAMBAYANAN’

(CNN Philippines, May 17)— The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) installed 159 farmers inside the banana plantation controlled by agribusiness company Lapanday Foods Corporation in Tagum City Thursday.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has forged an agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP) for the development and implementation of programs that will improve and increase agricultural productivity, and promote social protection and climate resilience in agrarian reform communities (ARCs).
AT LEAST 4,000 farmers from Hacienda Luisita Inc. in Tarlac were “duped” by local politicians and other influential personalities within the past three years since the distribution of the certificates of land ownership award by the Department of Agrarian Reform, the agency said Tuesday.